213 Quotes by Karen Russell

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.

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

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

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.

My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.

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

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

Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing new voices in addition to delivering freaky-fresh work from established writers.

In a way, I think we all want to look to that journalistic voice as a kind of global omniscience, a big eye to correct for our own limited purview: "Here's a realistic accounting of the world in which we live."