"If you're short on time, that would be……" — Karen Russell

"If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell."

— Karen Russell

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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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More Fell Quotes

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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of… — Teresa of Avila
I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there. — Martha Beck
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. — Lionel Blue
I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell. — Usain Bolt
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about… — Edward de Bono
I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned… — Clay Aiken
But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart… — Edie Brickell
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style.… — Geraldine Brooks
I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And… — Madeleine Albright
I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting. — Edward Burns
America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I… — Paula Abdul

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