213 Quotes by Karen Russell

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.

This is it, the geographical limit of how far I’ll go for Ossie. We are learning longitude and latitude in school, and it makes my face burn that I can graph the coordinates of my own love and courage with such damning precision.

I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.

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

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.”

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

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.

If you’re gonna do something weird, just have one thing be weird.

I whispered to Ossie that I wanted to see the register for Death’s aeroplane. Who was boarding the plane in such a stupid order? The.