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Top 70 Karen Thompson Walker Quotes (2025 Update)
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Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.”

51. “It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “He’d grown eager to hand off his things, as if the weight of his possessions kept him tethered to this earth, and by giving them away, he could snip those strings.”

52. “He’d grown eager to hand off his things, as if the weight of his possessions kept him tethered to this earth, and by giving them away, he could snip those strings.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “There is a difference between what is not true and what cannot be measured.”

53. “There is a difference between what is not true and what cannot be measured.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “And so much of this life will remain always beyond her understanding, as obscure as the landscapes of someone else’s dream.”

54. “And so much of this life will remain always beyond her understanding, as obscure as the landscapes of someone else’s dream.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn’t set out to deliver a specific message.”

55. “I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn’t set out to deliver a specific message.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.”

56. “To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “Doesn’t big news always leak before it’s meant to? Aren’t secrets usually spilled?”

57. “Doesn’t big news always leak before it’s meant to? Aren’t secrets usually spilled?”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “Sara is still a little in her dream – something about her mother, the idea of her, anyway. She is wearing the green cardigan from the picture of her that Sara has in her drawer. And the kitchen. They were sitting together in the kitchen. But matching the words to the dream only dissolves what is left of it, the way certain stars vanish from the sky if you look directly at them.”

58. “Sara is still a little in her dream – something about her mother, the idea of her, anyway. She is wearing the green cardigan from the picture of her that Sara has in her drawer. And the kitchen. They were sitting together in the kitchen. But matching the words to the dream only dissolves what is left of it, the way certain stars vanish from the sky if you look directly at them.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.”

59. “I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “They sleep like children, mouths open, cheeks flushed. Breathing as rhythmic as swells on a sea. No longer allowed in the rooms, their mothers and fathers watch them through double-paned glass. Isolation – that’s what the doctors call it: the separation of the sick from the well. But isn’t every sleep a kind of isolation? When else are we so alone?”

60. “They sleep like children, mouths open, cheeks flushed. Breathing as rhythmic as swells on a sea. No longer allowed in the rooms, their mothers and fathers watch them through double-paned glass. Isolation – that’s what the doctors call it: the separation of the sick from the well. But isn’t every sleep a kind of isolation? When else are we so alone?”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “In general, I think I’m quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.”

61. “In general, I think I’m quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “They died, he wrote, as if overcome by sleep – or, according to a second translation: as if drowned in a dream.”

62. “They died, he wrote, as if overcome by sleep – or, according to a second translation: as if drowned in a dream.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “She looked lonely through the lens of my telescope, like one of those faraway stars, still visible to our eyes but no longer really there.”

63. “She looked lonely through the lens of my telescope, like one of those faraway stars, still visible to our eyes but no longer really there.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.”

64. “Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “Worry, she often reminds her patients, is a kind of creativity. Fear is an act of the imagination.”

65. “Worry, she often reminds her patients, is a kind of creativity. Fear is an act of the imagination.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “Not everything that happens in a life can be digested. Some events stay forever whole. Some images never leave the mind.”

66. “Not everything that happens in a life can be digested. Some events stay forever whole. Some images never leave the mind.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “It’s really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone’s attention.”

67. “It’s really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone’s attention.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.”

68. “Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “The biology majors among them would someday come to learn this fact: certain parasites can bend the behavior of their hosts to serve their own purposes. If viruses could do it, here is how it would look: seventeen people crowded into one small room, seventeen pairs of lungs breathing the same air, seventeen mouths drinking from the same two shot glasses, again and again, for hours.”

69. “The biology majors among them would someday come to learn this fact: certain parasites can bend the behavior of their hosts to serve their own purposes. If viruses could do it, here is how it would look: seventeen people crowded into one small room, seventeen pairs of lungs breathing the same air, seventeen mouths drinking from the same two shot glasses, again and again, for hours.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.”

70. “I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

$Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “What went on in that head of his? I would soon come to understand that he gave voice to only a fraction of the thoughts that swam behind his eyes.”$

71. “What went on in that head of his? I would soon come to understand that he gave voice to only a fraction of the thoughts that swam behind his eyes.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “How quaint the old twenty-four-hour clock began to look to our eyes, how impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, as neat as walnut shells. How had we believed, we wondered, in such simplistic things?”

72. “How quaint the old twenty-four-hour clock began to look to our eyes, how impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, as neat as walnut shells. How had we believed, we wondered, in such simplistic things?”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “Every one of her days hums with the possibility that she might be doing it wrong.”

73. “Every one of her days hums with the possibility that she might be doing it wrong.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “As strange as the new days seemed to us at first, the old days would come to feel very quickly the stranger.”

74. “As strange as the new days seemed to us at first, the old days would come to feel very quickly the stranger.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “Here is what he has learned about loving a baby: the time away from her is vital to the pleasure of being with her.”

75. “Here is what he has learned about loving a baby: the time away from her is vital to the pleasure of being with her.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “He never talked about his mother – and I had learned never to ask – but I sometimes sensed her absence in his reactions to certain events, as if he knew even then that there existed under everything a universal grief.”

76. “He never talked about his mother – and I had learned never to ask – but I sometimes sensed her absence in his reactions to certain events, as if he knew even then that there existed under everything a universal grief.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “How expert we are at looking away from what we would rather not see.”

77. “How expert we are at looking away from what we would rather not see.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker Quote: “His mind is like that: always mired in a terrible future.”

78. “His mind is like that: always mired in a terrible future.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

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