Author: 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- 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?

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

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 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

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.

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

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

- Karen Thompson Walker

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

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

- Karen Thompson Walker

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