"I was sort of growing up at a……" — Karen Russell
"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 about how the Everglades was on life support. I was always trying to reconcile it as a kid."
—
Karen Russell
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
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…
See all 46 quotes by Karen Russell »
More Always Trying Quotes
This quote is filed under Always Trying Quotes,
one of 228 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
— Henry Adams
-
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
— Tim Burton
-
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what…
— Michael Caine
-
I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not…
— Naomi Campbell
-
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm…
— Lionel Messi
-
It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
-
The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
-
I don't think you're ever there. You never arrive, but if you do, you might as well quit because you're…
— Tiger Woods
-
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform…
— Mark Twain
-
I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him.
— Blake Griffin
-
I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from…
— Rose Byrne
See all 228 Always Trying Quotes »