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Karen Thompson Walker Quotes
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I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that’s not the kind of fiction that I like to read (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)
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)
It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There’s a certain boldness to inaction (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer (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)
To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it’s the way we’re made (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)
From then on, we all had a little more time to decide what not to do. And who knows how fast a second - guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret? (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
... but most houses in California were built without roots, leaving us trapped above ground with the light (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I never knew until then that snow made everything quiet, somehow silencing all the world's noise (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I think we lost something else when we lost that crisp rhythm, some general shared belief that we could count on certain things (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
A single red bucket dangled from a single spoke like the last fruit of summer, or like autumn's final leaf (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
So much that seems harmless in daylight turns imposing in the dark. What else, you had to wonder, was only a trick of light? (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I knew everything about the back of that head - the swirl of his hair, the curve of his ear, the straight, sharp line of his jaw. I liked the way he smelled like soap even late in the afternoon (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
What I understood so far about this life was there were the bullies and the bullied, the hunters and the hunted, the strong and the stronger and the weak (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 left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn’t coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next? (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)
Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do (Karen Thompson Walker Quotes)