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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 39 quotes by Karen Russell Karen Russell (born July 10, 1981) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, Swamplandia!, was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" in 2013. Read full biography of Karen Russell → 1 2 3 Ctrl → Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive. 0 Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things... → 0 Now I'll read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn't that a sad confession? But it's like my substitute... → 0 It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his... → 0 When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. 0 I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales. 0 I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers. 0 I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips. 0 My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary. 0 I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of... → 0 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... → 0 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.... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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