14 Karen Joy Fowler Quotes for You to Enjoy

Karen Joy Fowler

American Author

Born: Feb 7, 1950

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us. Karen Joy Fowler

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The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too. Karen Joy Fowler

You People Smart Build Think Too Way Reliably About Know Option Get Going Maybe Being Literary Happier Produce Then Create Successful Product Less Fun Career

I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to. Karen Joy Fowler

Best Myself Survival Important Lost Greed Elves Solving Know Talk Learned How Friend May Avarice Skill Riddles Among Dragon

I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me. Karen Joy Fowler

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it. Karen Joy Fowler

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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link. Karen Joy Fowler

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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention. Karen Joy Fowler

Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through. Karen Joy Fowler

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I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer. Karen Joy Fowler

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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader. Karen Joy Fowler

Enthusiastic Generous Reader Always Been

Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had. Karen Joy Fowler

Teacher Best Had Miss Ever

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