"In short stories there's more permission to be……" — 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 a lot of meanings within a short space."
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46 Quotes by Karen Russell
Karen Russell has 46 quotes on this site.
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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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And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a…
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