Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.
Karen RussellI swim with all my strength. No superhuman surge, or pony heroics; it's just me at my most desperate.
Karen RussellMy mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.
Karen RussellI'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.
Karen Russell