"I first started writing fiction in college because……" — Karen Thompson Walker
"I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them."
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38 Quotes by Karen Thompson Walker
Karen Thompson Walker has 38 quotes on this site.
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Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
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Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when…
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But the past is long, and the future is short.
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I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the…
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Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
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I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back.…
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I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are…
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Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as…
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How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived…
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Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's…
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Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person…
— Abu Bakr
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I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity.…
— Amy Adams
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The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
— James A. Baldwin
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious…
— Honore de Balzac
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I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.
— Eric Bana
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I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid,…
— Eric Bana
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As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends…
— Eric Bana
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Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
— Dave Barry
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I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.
— Kate Beckinsale
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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