“ I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solvin… Karen Thompson Walker
“ I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky. Karen Thompson Walker
“ Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out. Karen Thompson Walker
“ Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial. Karen Thompson Walker
“ As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to ano… Karen Thompson Walker
“ I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions. Karen Thompson Walker
“ End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so mu… Karen Thompson Walker
“ 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. Karen Thompson Walker
“ 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. Karen Thompson Walker
“ Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes h… Karen Thompson Walker
“ We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles. Karen Thompson Walker
“ I'd grown up hearing stories about the special hazards that girls faced. I knew where the bodies were found: naked on beaches or cut into pieces, parts frozen in freezers or buried in cement. These st… Karen Thompson Walker
“ He'd grown eager to hand off his things, as if the weight of his possessions kept him tethered to this earth, and by giving them away, he could snip those strings. Karen Thompson Walker
“ I could no longer remember the way my mother's eyes looked before the slowing. Had they always been so red around the edges? Surely, those pockets of gray beneath her lower lashes were new. She still… Karen Thompson Walker
“ It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction. Karen Thompson Walker
“ This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man. Karen Thompson Walker
“ We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain. Karen Thompson Walker
“ The only thing you have to do in this life is die," said Mrs. Pinsky..."everything else is a choice. Karen Thompson Walker
