Karen Thompson Walker Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Beautiful, Writing, College

• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Feels

  "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

• I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Book, Writing, People

• 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 another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

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  Beautiful, Writing, Night

• I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

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  Writing, College, Virginia

• 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.

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  Jobs, Fall, Writing

• 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 solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.

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  Moving, Writing, Editing

• I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.

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  Coffee, Writing, Sunday

• I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

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  Morning, Writing, Mind

• Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

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  Reading, Writing, Editors

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