"I tended to be drawn to the weirder,……" — Karen Russell
"I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies."
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46 Quotes by Karen Russell
Karen Russell has 46 quotes on this site.
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In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in…
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Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I…
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You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
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I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole…
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Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.
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Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another,…
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"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I…
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Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously…
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Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.
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The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.
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It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
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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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More Anthologies Quotes
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one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the…
— Lynn Abbey
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I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying…
— Judith Guest
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial…
— Gary Saul Morson
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Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy…
— Gary Saul Morson
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Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to…
— William Ernest Henley
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I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're…
— Neil Strauss
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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
— Eugenio Montale
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Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that…
— Jeff VanderMeer
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As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
— Elizabeth Janeway
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Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches,…
— James Wolcott
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Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel…
— Pat Conroy
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