It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.
Karen RussellYou don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.
Karen RussellWhen you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.
Karen RussellAmerica's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.
Karen Russell