Karen Joy Fowler Quotes

Sylvia’s first impression of Allegra was that no one had ever before had such a beautiful baby.Jocelyn’s first impression of Grigg was that he had nice eyelashes and a funny name, and didn’t interest...

But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.

About Author

Karen Joy Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and social alienation.
She is best known as the author of the best-selling novel The Jane Austen Book Club (2004) that was adapted into a movie of the same name.

You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.

In 2004, Jacques Derrida said that a change was under way. Torture damages the inflicter as well as the inflicted. It’s no coincidence that one of the Abu Ghraib torturers came to the military directl...

Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they lea...

Out there is South Dakota," Kitch had said, "Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal.

I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.

Who knows you better than your own brother?

It was one of those subjects to which everything that slithers across your brain seems relevant. I find this to be true of most topics.

Grandma Donna passed the oyster stuffing and asked my father straight out what he was working on, it being so obvious his thoughts were not with us. She meant it as a reprimand. He was the only one at...

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

Pheromones are Earth’s primordial idiom.

Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.

The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance. . . . They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil. . . . And the Indians put a great deal of faith in d...

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.

I’m red as a berry, shiny from the pickling of the womb, and squinting at the world through suspicious, slitted eyes.

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me.

I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.