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
My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I… — 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
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in… — 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
