Karen Russell Quotes

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

Karen Russell

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• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Single
  • Heaven

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Botox

• My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Parents
  • Weird
  • Creative

• If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • You
  • Fall
  • Back

• Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Men
  • Purpose
  • Mountains

• There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO

  

  Alexander Cockburn

• Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the National character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.

  

  James Madison
  • Long
  • Character

• It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • Good

• I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.

  

  Chazz Palminteri
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• As the number of people who work at Basecamp has grown, I've noticed places where we could use more features, like management, structure, and guidelines. I've also noticed places where we've overengineered ourselves and should pull back.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Work
  • Management

• I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Music
  • Country
  • Hope

• My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

  

  Ken Follett
  • World
  • Writing
  • War

• I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Photography

• The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

  

  Clive Owen
  • Believe
  • Eyes

• I always appreciate hard work, and every actor has a different process. I appreciate focus.

  

  Marc Platt
  • Work
  • Different
  • Focus

• You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.

  

  Jared Kushner
  • Important
  • Reality

• In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Moving

• We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in prison now as we did in 1981, when I left the White House. So that's been one of the major concerns I've had as a non-lawyer, to criticize the American justice system, which is highly biased against black people and poor people. And it still is.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • Prison
  • Black People

• A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Responsibility

• To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

  

  Saib Tabrizi
  • Silence
  • Sea
  • Pearls

• I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.

  

  Lauren Ambrose

• Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

  

  Karen Russell
  • Reality
  • Everyday
  • Inherent