Karen Russell Quotes - Page 3

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• I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father sees you, how strong and necessary he thinks you are.

  Karen Russell

  Strong, Father, Thinking

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• I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do. So, it's usually not too, too hard.

  Karen Russell

  Writing, Trying, Favorites Things

  "Life, Love And Undeath In The 'Lemon Grove'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 8, 2013.

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• I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.

  Karen Russell

  World, Students, Immersion

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• At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Block, Names

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• I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

  Karen Russell

  Florida, Swamps, Alligators

  "Life, Love And Undeath In The 'Lemon Grove'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 8, 2013.

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• The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

  Karen Russell

  Girl, Way

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• Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

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  Loss, Evil, Spinning

  "What Author Karen Russell Knows For Sure About 7 P.M." by Karen Russell, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.

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  Children, Writing, Thinking

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• It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.

  Karen Russell

  Book, Writing, Symphony

  "The Exchange: Karen Russell on 'Swamplandia!'" by Rachel Hurn, www.newyorker.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

  Karen Russell

  Book, White, Madness

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• I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.

  Karen Russell

  Stuff, Horror, Sci Fi

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• I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

  Karen Russell

  New York, Writing, Stories

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.

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  Vocabulary, Class, Dumb

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• It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

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  Lonely, Alive, Fierce

  Karen Russell (2012). “Swamplandia!”, p.130, Random House

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• Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing new voices in addition to delivering freaky-fresh work from established writers.

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  Voice, People, House

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• Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.

  Karen Russell

  Regret, Pilgrimage

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• I think that's the real horror story for me, how little you can ever really know about your own motivations. How in the dark we all are about the concerns and the contents of our minds.

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  Motivation, Real, Dark

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In a way, I think we all want to look to that journalistic voice as a kind of global omniscience, a big eye to correct for our own limited purview: "Here's a realistic accounting of the world in which we live."

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  Eye, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets. Accessing that shadowy territory really requires the physical act of writing.

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  Writing, Thinking, Secret

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.

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  Training, Outsiders, Felt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.

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  Growing Up, Ocean, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.

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  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

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  Book, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

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  Mean, Attention, Fiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus.

  Karen Russell

  Moving, Writing, Focus

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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