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Karen Russell Quotes: "When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them."

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.



Karen Russell Quotes: "Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive."

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




Karen Russell Quotes: "It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity."

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.



Karen Russell Quotes: "My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather."

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.




Karen Russell Quotes: "I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida."

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



Karen Russell Quotes: "It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams."

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.



Karen Russell Quotes: "Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place."

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.




Karen Russell Quotes: "There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction."

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.



Karen Russell Quotes: "A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions."

A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.



Karen Russell Quotes: "You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories."

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.



Karen Russell Quotes: "I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings."

I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.



Karen Russell Quotes: "If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell."

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.




Karen Russell Quotes: "It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation."

It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.



Karen Russell Quotes: ""I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love."

"I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.



Karen Russell Quotes: "I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave."

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.



Karen Russell Quotes: "I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips."

I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.



Karen Russell Quotes: "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."

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.



Karen Russell Quotes: "It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift."

It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift.



Karen Russell Quotes: "For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication."

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.



Karen Russell Quotes: "I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter."

I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.



Karen Russell Quotes: "I think that's the real horror story for me, how little you can ever really know about your own motivations. How in the dark we all are about the concerns and the contents of our minds."

I think that's the real horror story for me, how little you can ever really know about your own motivations. How in the dark we all are about the concerns and the contents of our minds.



Karen Russell Quotes: "I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier."

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



Karen Russell Quotes: "I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes."

I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.



Karen Russell Quotes: "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."

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.



Karen Russell Quotes: "My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary."

My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.



Karen Russell Quotes: "I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers."

I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.



Karen Russell Quotes: "Could we betray our parents by going back to them?"

Could we betray our parents by going back to them?



Karen Russell Quotes: "You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu."

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.



Karen Russell Quotes: "Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose."

Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.



Karen Russell Quotes: "My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida."

My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.



Karen Russell Quotes: "The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things."

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.



Karen Russell Quotes: "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."

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.



Karen Russell Quotes: "I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate."

I swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.



Karen Russell Quotes: "Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them."

Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.



Karen Russell Quotes: "And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way."

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.



Karen Russell Quotes: "Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything."

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.



Karen Russell Quotes: "So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum."

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.



Karen Russell Quotes: "I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory."

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



Karen Russell Quotes: "I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies."

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



Karen Russell Quotes: "Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest."

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.



Karen Russell Quotes: "What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials."

What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.



Karen Russell Quotes: "I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures."

I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.



Karen Russell Quotes: "Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature."

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.



Karen Russell Quotes: "The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle."

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.



Karen Russell Quotes: "Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify."

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.



Karen Russell Quotes: "My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly."

My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.



Karen Russell Quotes: "Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself."

Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself.



Karen Russell Quotes: "But if you kept thinking about a fight you’d lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again."

But if you kept thinking about a fight you’d lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.



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

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