Quote by Karen Thompson Walker Download Open image ““Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?”” — Karen Thompson Walker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I like to think about how my parents' lives once shimmered in front of them, half hidden, like buried gold. Back then the future… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“What did the truth matter? All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.” — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“You're smiling. But you must know yourself, since you are a literary person, that the work of fiction is always a form of recovery… — Raymond Federman Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Months later, Michaela's mother would spread a star chart before us and explain to me that the slowing had shifted everyone's astrological signs. Fortunes… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“I'd grown up hearing stories about the special hazards that girls faced. I knew where the bodies were found: naked on beaches or cut… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Of all the strange phenomena that befell us that year, maybe nothing surprised me more than the sound of that small question rolling out… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“I could no longer remember the way my mother's eyes looked before the slowing. Had they always been so red around the edges? Surely,… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“She left her keys in the teeth of the lock where they would dangle all day.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“I liked the idea, how the past could be preserved, fossilized, in the stars. I wanted to think that somewhere on the other end… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
