Karen Russell Quotes

• I think there’s a kind of confidence I often feel when I’m writing that I don’t feel when I’m in the world, I guess. I feel a different kind of conviction about my choices. I feel much more insecure and awkward in the world, somehow, than I do when I’m writing.

  Karen Russell

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• I think that different pleasures work for different readers – a friend of mine won’t read anything that’s not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I’m a sucker for humor and strangeness.

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• I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.

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

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• I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration.

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• I really try to write every day. It’s hard, but it’s my favorite thing to do, so it’s usually not too, too hard.

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• I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences; Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I’m sure I’d love it, because the sentences would be tuned up like music.

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• I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

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• I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.

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• 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.

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• I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.

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• I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers.

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• I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.

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• I also love animals, and I worked at a veterinary clinic for a while, but it turns out that loving animals and removing deflated basketballs from the intestinal tracts of animals are two very different skill sets.

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• 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, the import of certain events and what distinguishes ‘good’ from ‘bad’ luck.

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• For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

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• Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

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• 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.

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Karen Russell (38)

Birth:	10th July, 1981
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

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