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Karen Thompson Walker
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Amazing Day Life Love Think Writing
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life. Karen Thompson Walker
Life Value Pleasure Reminded Being Ordinary Ordinary Life
Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting. Karen Thompson Walker
Day Change Few Incredibly Our Earth Extremely Slight Earthquake Though Haunting Only Had Idea Read Affected After Length Shortening Rotation Even Found
The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago. Karen Thompson Walker
Love Beautiful Writing Books Favorites Some Road Combine Most Sort Blindness Stylish McCarthy Story Gripping Really Interpreter
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines. Karen Thompson Walker
Food World Take For Granted Value Own Every Changed Enough Pleasure Drawn Ring My Own Small Tend Take Hot True Wrote Always Been Surprising Friends Where Stories Ordinary Them Meaning Much Creating Granted Radically Showers Found Routines Thing
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. Karen Thompson Walker
Life Time Day Writing Amazing Job My Life Fall Instead Feel Around Left Up Very Squeezing Lucky Now Set
These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us. Karen Thompson Walker
Best Good Think Plot Jobs Only Voice Days Like Look Sound Surprise Meaning Sentences Us Workers Tone Images
If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it. Karen Thompson Walker
Find Scary Haunted Read Story Newspaper
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book. Karen Thompson Walker
Myself Experience Book Publish Nine Would No-One Likelihood Editor Opposite Years Familiar Want
Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway. Karen Thompson Walker
Me Running Solutions Occur While Subway Sentences Shower Riding Treadmill

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