120 Quotes by Karen Thompson Walker

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn’t set out to deliver a specific message.

Not everything that happens in a life can be digested. Some events stay forever whole. Some images never leave the mind.

I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that’s not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it’s the way we’re made.

The boys turn quiet and they drink even more – cheap beer bought with fake IDs. They keep their hands in their pockets those first few days and just try to stay out of the way of the girls. It is as if the boys can sense it, even in those girls, in their easy closeness and their interlocking arms: the whole history of women and suffering, the generations of practice at grief.

It’s really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone’s attention.

I feel like writing a book there’s always a version in your head that’s an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn’t right. It’s not love – it’s relief.

A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That’s what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.