--- title: "1 Women-authors Quotes By Karen Russell" description: "1 Women-authors quotes by Karen Russell. Plus more from Karen Russell and more Women-authors sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a4/karen-russell-1697_short-stories_what-are-you-grinning-at-nal-muttered-as_1820110.png" --- > [“What are you grinning at?' Nal muttered. As if in response, the gull spread its wings and opened its shadow over the miniature ruins of the castle - too huge, Nal thought, and vaguely humanoid in shape - and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/what-are-you-grinning-at-nal-muttered-as-if-in-response-the-gull/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a4/karen-russell-1697_short-stories_what-are-you-grinning-at-nal-muttered-as_1820110.png) ## More by Karen Russell > [“As a kid I heard the word malignancy as "Malig-Nancy" like an evil woman's name, no matter how many times Kiwi and the Chief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/as-a-kid-i-heard-the-word-malignancy-as-malig-nancy-like-an-evil/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [“Once Mom and Ossie and I spent an afternoon alone together in her hospital room. We were watching the small TV above her head…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/once-mom-and-ossie-and-i-spent-an-afternoon-alone-together-in-her/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/people-really-get-myopic-as-they-get-older-we-re-not-a-culture-that/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/it-is-a-special-kind-of-homelessness-to-be-evicted-from-your-dreams/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [“She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/she-used-to-suffer-these-intense-bouts-of-homesickness-in-her-own/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [“At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. (spoken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/at-ten-i-couldn-t-articulate-much-but-i-got-the-message-to-be-a-true/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [“THE ALLIGATOR IS AN ANACHRONISM THAT CAN EAT YOU!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/the-alligator-is-an-anachronism-that-can-eat-you/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [“ Forever , just the word fills Beverly with an unaccountable, schoolmarmish sort of rage. Forever, that's got to be bad math, right? Such terrifying math.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/forever-just-the-word-fills-beverly-with-an-unaccountable/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [“I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/i-swim-with-all-my-strength-no-superhuman-surge-or-pony-heroics-it-s/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/so-much-of-the-way-books-get-classified-has-to-do-with-marketing/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/the-beginning-of-the-end-can-feel-a-lot-like-the-middle-when-you-are/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [“I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/i-often-think-that-she-foresaw-only-the-end-times-never-hot-dogs/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [“I had an ear for languages, and I could read before I could adequately wash myself. I probably could have vied with Jeanette for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/i-had-an-ear-for-languages-and-i-could-read-before-i-could-adequately/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [“Etiquette was so confounding in this country. Still, looking at Mirabella-her fists balled together like small, white porcupines, her brows knitted in animal confusion-I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/etiquette-was-so-confounding-in-this-country-still-looking-at/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) > [It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-russell/it-s-funny-for-a-long-time-i-would-go-watermelon-red-and-deny-that-i/) [Karen Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-russell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/women-authors/karen-russell/#itemlist", "name": "1 Women-authors Quotes By Karen Russell", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What are you grinning at?' Nal muttered. As if in response, the gull spread its wings and opened its shadow over the miniature ruins of the castle - too huge, Nal thought, and vaguely humanoid in shape - and then it flew off, laboring heavily against the wind. 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