"For me, writing is a parenthesis where I……" — Karen Russell

"For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life."

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46 Quotes by Karen Russell

Karen Russell has 46 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in…
Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I…
You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole…
Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another,…
"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I…
Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously…
Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.
The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.
It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk…

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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of… — Hannah Arendt
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and… — Hannah Arendt
I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can… — Alexis Arguello
I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over… — Aristotle

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