Karen Thompson Walker
Books by Karen Thompson Walker
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Quotes by Karen Thompson Walker
-
We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.
Read quote -
The only thing you have to do in this life is die, said Mrs. Pinsky...everything else is a choice.
Read quote -
We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.
Read quote -
The only thing you have to do in this life is die, said Mrs. Pinsky...everything else is a choice.
Read quote -
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
Read quote -
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
Read quote -
I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
Read quote -
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
Read quote -
The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
Read quote -
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
Read quote -
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
Read quote -
I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.
Read quote -
Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
Read quote