Karen Thompson Walker Quotes - Page 2

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• If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

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  Scary Stories, Newspapers, Ifs

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• Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.

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  Closets, Dangerous, Happened

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• But the past is long, and the future is short.

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  Past, Long

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

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  Thinking, Editors, Needs

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• I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

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  Book, Years, Opposites

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• Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.

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  Creepy, Abundance, Turns

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles: A Novel”, p.88, Random House

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• In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

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  Thinking, Worry, Kind

  "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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• Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.

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  Stories, Sometimes, Saddest

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Knowing

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• Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

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  Fear, Play, Imagination

  "What fear can teach us". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

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  Degrees, Way, Persevere

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• I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

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  Morning, Writing, Mind

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• I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

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  Sweet, Children, Thinking

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• It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

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  Years, Looks, Fiction

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• Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

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  Running, Riding, Subway

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• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Feels

  "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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• With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?

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  Heart, Eye, Years

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles: A Novel”, p.94, Random House

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Fall, Writing

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Writing, Night

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• 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.

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  Creating, Hot, Stories

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• 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.

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  Reading, Sunday, Years

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• Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

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  Growing Up, Earthquakes, Feelings

  "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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• I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

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  Writing, College, Virginia

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• I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the President, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

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  Trying, President, Fiction

  "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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