I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead … - Karen Thompson Walker

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It is impossible to catch today; it flows out from our palms! It is impossible to catch tomorrow; it flows out from our palms! We cannot hold them; they constantly run away from us!

Karen Thompson Walker

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.

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With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?

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

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

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My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

Goal, Possible, Stories, Way

In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

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