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To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
But the past is long, and the future is short (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn’t right. It’s not love--it’s relief (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret? (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan’s amazing debut novel, ‘The Lifeboat,’ when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It’s such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
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 a world that is so radically changed, yet where there’s so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I’m picking up is what’s in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
Sometimes I think I might not have written ‘The Age of Miracles’ if I hadn’t grown up in California, if I hadn’t been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial. (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I’m an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life. (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there’s still time to influence how that future will play out. (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment. (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That’s what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself. (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it’s kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee. (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
It’s really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone’s attention. (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I was a book editor for nine years. I’m familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book. (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy, ‘The Virgin Suicides’ by Jeffrey Eugenides, ‘The Interpreter of Maladies’ by Jhumpa Lahiri, and ‘Blindness’ by Jose Saramago. (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing. (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
In general, I think I’m quick to worry about disasters of all kinds (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
There’s a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I’m an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I’m haunted by it (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That’s what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it’s one of the most satisfying parts of writing (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)