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Stories Quotes by 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 can come to…
- You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
- Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.
- 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…
- If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.
- I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
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