Karen Thompson Walker Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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?”

“Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.”

“I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.”

“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.”

“I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.”

“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.”

“If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.”

“It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.”

“Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.”

“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.”