Best Karen Russell Quotes
- A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once,… Alive
- I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims… Breadth
- Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to worry about some… Bars
- But if you kept thinking about a fight you’d lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again. D Lost
- The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it. Beginning
- If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell. Fell
- When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. Bathroom
- I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies. Anthologies
- I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers. Bending
- I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier. All
- I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway. Another Country
- I also love animals, and I worked at a veterinary clinic for a while, but it turns out that loving animals and removing deflated basketballs… Animals
- I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida. Alligator
- For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life. Life
- I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips. Abroad
- I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration. Alliteration
- My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary. Classes
- I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales. All
- I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory. Grow
- I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when people were talking… Always Trying
- New York is a weird place. New