213 Quotes by Karen Russell

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 latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.

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

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

Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness.

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

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.

I do think there's something when you have an unbroken day, and it feels like you and your attention can just be together like birds again and you can actually think and dream a little.

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

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