I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
Karen RussellI am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.
Karen RussellAnd I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.
Karen RussellI do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.
Karen Russell