My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.
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
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
If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it. - Karen Thompson Walker
If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them. - 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.
Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do. - Karen Thompson Walker
Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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 … - Karen Thompson Walker
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 …
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
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?
I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions. - Karen Thompson Walker
I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible. - Karen Thompson Walker
My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.
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… - Karen Thompson Walker
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…
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