Best Karen Thompson Walker Quotes
- A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than… Doe
- As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and… Amazing
- End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a… Been
- Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of… Been
- I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning… Admire
- I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's… Amazing
- I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me,… Edit
- I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not… Apocalypse
- I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is… Day
- I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up… Beginning
- I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to… Book
- Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day.… Affected
- Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to… Age