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> [To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/to-be-a-good-editor-or-a-good-writer-i-think-you-really-need-to-be-a/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

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## More by Karen Thompson Walker

> [My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/my-sentences-got-sharper-and-my-stories-more-efficient-and-i/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/end-of-the-world-stories-tend-to-ring-true-i-ve-always-been-drawn-to/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/months-later-michaela-s-mother-would-spread-a-star-chart-before-us/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [“Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/doesn-t-every-previous-era-feel-like-fiction-once-it-s-gone/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/i-d-grown-up-hearing-stories-about-the-special-hazards-that-girls/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/but-i-guess-it-never-is-what-you-worry-over-that-comes-to-pass-in-the/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [“Of all the strange phenomena that befell us that year, maybe nothing surprised me more than the sound of that small question rolling out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/of-all-the-strange-phenomena-that-befell-us-that-year-maybe-nothing/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/an-editor-is-like-a-professional-reader-and-as-i-became-a-better/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/i-could-no-longer-remember-the-way-my-mother-s-eyes-looked-before-the/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [“She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/she-left-her-keys-in-the-teeth-of-the-lock-where-they-would-dangle/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/i-fell-in-love-with-virginia-woolf-in-college-i-especially-admire-how/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/our-fears-are-an-amazing-gift-of-the-imagination-a-way-of-glimpsing/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [“I liked the idea, how the past could be preserved, fossilized, in the stars. I wanted to think that somewhere on the other end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/i-liked-the-idea-how-the-past-could-be-preserved-fossilized-in-the/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/i-should-have-known-by-then-that-it-s-never-the-disasters-you-see/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

> [Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-thompson-walker/feeling-earthquakes-was-part-of-growing-up-and-also-preparing-for/)

[Karen Thompson Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-thompson-walker/)

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