Vivid-description Quote by Karen Thompson Walker Download Open image ““how impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, neat as walnut shells.”” — Karen Thompson Walker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Vivid-description
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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
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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
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