“ . . . perhaps the reasons for a man to leave his life were too obvious for him to name.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“It was a rough crossing, the one from childhood to the next life. And as with any other harsh journey, not everything… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that… — 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
“What I understood so far about this life was there were the bullies and the bullied, the hunters and the hunted, the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in… — 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 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
“How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
