Quotes by Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker

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

Inspiration

Knowing

Motivation

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.

Earthquakes

Feelings

Growing Up

How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.

Age

Disappointment

Would Be

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

Mind

Morning

Writing

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.

Book

Feels

Writing

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.

College

Virginia

Writing

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

Beautiful

College

Writing

I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

Book

People

Writing

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.

Fall

Jobs

Writing

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it’s one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

Editing

Moving

Writing

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Age

Beautiful

Book

Bravery

California

Certain

Christian

Closets

College

Dangerous

Decay

Different

Disappointment

Earthquakes

Editing

Editors

Eye

Fall

Father

Fear

Feelings

Feels

Fiction

Girl

Growing Up

Happened

Heart

Imagination

Imagine

Inspiration

Jobs

Joy

Kind

Know How

Knowing

Love Is

Lying

Mind

Miracle

Morning

Motivation

Moving

Needs

Opposites

Ordinary

Ordinary Life

People

Play

Pleasure

President

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Quotes by Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker

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

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.

How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.

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

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.

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.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

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.

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it’s one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

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