Karen Russell Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.”

“My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.”

“I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line.”

“I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when people were talking about how the Everglades was on life support. I was always trying to reconcile it as a kid.”

“Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.”

“At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.”

“It can be difficult workshopping novels because any questions or qualms you have as the author can be like, 'That's next chapter, don't worry about it!' I don't think the workshop is set up so well to do that for novels.”

“I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.”

“People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being.”

“In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.”