Mary Robison Professions : Short story writer Born : January 14, 1949 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Mary Robison You know, up until later on today, I never really knew how to drink. Mary Robison drink knows today What it takes to survive out here is order, I realize and say to myself, ‘Divide the day into equal periods. See this travel alarm? You get up, don your uniform, move according to the bell.’ Mary Robison bells order moving I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor.... My brothers and sisters are very quick, intense, brilliant, very sarcastic people. And they were always right there with you, right there, missing not one little throat clearing. Mary Robison sarcastic brother people Something else that makes me angry is that I got too old to prostitute myself. I wasn't going to anyway but it was there, it was my Z plan. Mary Robison angry plans make-me-angry Similar Authors Arthur Shearly Cripps short-story-writer Ivan Vladislavic short-story-writer Deborah Eisenberg short-story-writer Doris Betts short-story-writer Diriye Osman short-story-writer Deb Olin Unferth short-story-writer All Authors