“This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“This had become a game of ours. We were serious kids made more so by the times.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because,… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“From then on, we all had a little more time to decide what not to do. And who knows how fast a… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“It was that time of life: Talents were rising to the surface, weaknesses were beginning to show through, we were finding out… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“After the slowing, every action required a little more force than it used to. The physics had changed. Take, for example, the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“I liked the idea, how the past could be preserved, fossilized, in the stars. I wanted to think that somewhere on the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Seth and I used to like to picture how our world would look to visitors someday, maybe a thousand years in the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
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… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
“Months later, Michaela's mother would spread a star chart before us and explain to me that the slowing had shifted everyone's astrological signs. Fortunes… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
“I'd grown up hearing stories about the special hazards that girls faced. I knew where the bodies were found: naked on beaches or cut… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
“Of all the strange phenomena that befell us that year, maybe nothing surprised me more than the sound of that small question rolling out… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
“I could no longer remember the way my mother's eyes looked before the slowing. Had they always been so red around the edges? Surely,… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
“She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
“I liked the idea, how the past could be preserved, fossilized, in the stars. I wanted to think that somewhere on the other end… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
“I should have known by then that it's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass; it's the ones you don't… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share
