Karen Joy Fowler

In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often…

— Karen Joy Fowler

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Je zou maar slecht over hem gaan denken en dat wil ik niet, want dat is mijn taak”

— Karen Joy Fowler

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“The secret to a good life,” he told me once, “is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank,…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“They never reminisced about the time they had to drive halfway back to Indianapolis because I’d left Dexter Poindexter, my terry-cloth penguin…

— Karen Joy Fowler

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Here is my objection to submarines and space travel: not enough windows. What difference does it make if you're in outer space…

— Karen Joy Fowler

. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states…

— Karen Joy Fowler

Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“...the world runs on the fuel of an endless, fathomless animal misery.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“I am shaking it, popping it, laying it down and working it out”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“who knows you better than your own brother?”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Scientists have solved the problem of solipsism with a strategy called 'inference to the best explanation'. It's a cheap accommodation, and no…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“WHERE YOU SUCCEED will never matter so much as where you fail,” I said.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

— Karen Joy Fowler

“So this is what I said to Mom; this is what I meant to say - That there was something inside Fern…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“In 2004, Jacques Derrida said that a change was under way. Torture damages the inflicter as well as the inflicted. It’s no…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face.…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“So the studies don't back me up. There'll always be more studies. We'll change our minds and I'll have been right all…

— Karen Joy Fowler