Writer Quotes by Karen Russell

I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do, so it's usually not too, too…

— Karen Russell

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

— Karen Russell

I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.

— Karen Russell

I'm living two blocks away from this library - and I don't know why I was so elated about this - but…

— Karen Russell

It can be difficult workshopping novels because any questions or qualms you have as the author can be like, 'That's next chapter,…

— Karen Russell

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that…

— Karen Russell

Writers get embarrassed sometimes in talking about how much fun writing can be, but drafting is often really enjoyable. Often, you're tumbling…

— Karen Russell

Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might…

— Karen Russell

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become…

— Karen Russell

Now I'll read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn't that a sad confession? But it's like…

— Karen Russell

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you…

— Karen Russell

I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world,…

— Karen Russell

“Wait, that’s your idea? That’s your expert advice? You’re going to tell these novelists to just keep going? You’re going to tell…

— Karen Russell

Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to…

— Karen Russell

I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of…

— Karen Russell

It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets.…

— Karen Russell

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just…

— Karen Russell

I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of…

— Karen Russell