Karen Lord Quotes

Barbados, Writer
May 22, 1968

Karen Lord is a Barbadian writer of speculative fiction. Her first novel, Redemption in Indigo (2010), retells the story "Ansige Karamba the Glutton" from Senegalese folklore and her second novel, The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013), is an example of social science fiction. Lord also writes on the sociology of religion.

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.

Karen Lord
- Thinking
- Stories
- Should
A little story is supported by a lot of untold backstory. What they get is more than what they see.

Karen Lord
- Supported
- Backstory

In the beginning, God created human beings, which is to say God put the ingredients together, embedded the instructions for building on the template, and put it all into four separate eggs marked 'Some Assembly Required.'

Karen Lord
Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living.

Karen Lord
- Work
- Remember
- Dream
All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

Karen Lord
- Story
- Thing
- Tales
I find that sometimes if you just sit still, things have a way of finding you before you can find them.

Karen Lord
Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the true name that tells of its history and people and lands and weather and . . . everything?

Karen Lord
- People
- Important
- Humans