Mary Karr Quotes

I try to stay away from the Internet.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

I shut down social media because I needed to shut out online distractions and engage with the people, issues, and work right in front of me.

I don't like the idea of being connected to the world all the time. One should have space and time for oneself.

The biggest thing I try to do is to unplug and give myself time away from social media and the Internet.

I stay off the Internet.

I can't do Twitter or Facebook, mostly because I feel like I'm the type of person who has to regiment the amount of time I spend doing certain things or I'll just wade in it, and then I'll never come out.

I think that it's really important to step back and to take breaks as a digital creator because every other kind of platform is kind of set up to have seasons or time off or at least a barrier between creator and consumer. You have these set-up boundaries.

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

I don't go online when I'm writing - that's the devil's workshop - but in general, I'm on there as much as any other global citizen.

I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.

Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.

I'm still struggling with whether I might want to get off the Internet. More and more people I know have. Daniel Day Lewis doesn't do the Internet at all, and I noticed he had many more books open around his house.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you've got to set those phones down.

I'm not one of those guys who walks around with a flip phone who doesn't want to be connected. There are times when I'm tech-friendly, and there are times when I personally do want to shut everything off because I'm more creative when I shut off.

That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.

We're all drowning in data. We all need moments of recovery. For me, that includes not going right to my phone when I wake up in the morning.

I try to make a point in my life to leave the cell phone in the car sometimes, to try to unplug as much as possible.

I see some kids whose social media is their whole world, and I actually think it's good to disconnect from that.