All Karen Russell Quotes
- 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 can come to… Almost Like
- Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for… All
- You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories. Inspirational
- I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a… Bats
- Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest. Best
- Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive. Alive
- "I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link arms… Age
- Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt… Any
- Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose. Choose
- The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things. Funny
- It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams. Dream
- Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place. Demanding
- And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely… Absolutely
- It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing… Acclaimed
- My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. Accessible
- Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like,… All
- No, I don’t have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don’t know yet that a secret,… Animal
- Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself. Adding
- My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One… Accessible
- When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them. From