Karen Joy Fowler Quotes
Top 94 wise famous quotes and sayings by Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Karen Joy Fowler on Wise Famous Quotes.
So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me.
He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out.
Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.
My uncle Bob sees the whole world in a fun-house mirror, TRUST NO ONE lipsticked luridly across its bowed face.
Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.
Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I'm not.
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
One Mother's Day, he gave Mom a music box that played the theme from Swan Lake. She cried for days over it.
We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we're completely beside ourselves.
There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science
In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.
My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.
Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.
Jocelyn was dumbstruck. She couldn't think of a single thing
she'd done that might give that impression. "I don't.
she'd done that might give that impression. "I don't.
He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.
There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened.
Tryptophan: a chemical in turkey meat rumored to make you sleepy and careless. One of the many minefields in the landscape of the family Thanksgiving.
It kept Mom on high alert and I worried sometimes that their marriage had become the sort Inspector Javert might have had with Jean Valjean.
I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
I'm red as a berry, shiny from the pickling of the womb, and squinting at the world through suspicious, slitted eyes.
It was always her failure for not being able to talk to us, never ours for not being able to understand her.
You can't imagine the white-hot fury someone who can't sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.
When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.
The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study.
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.
It was one of those subjects to which everything that slithers across your brain seems relevant. I find this to be true of most topics.
Over the years i've come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we've done and more to do with who they are.
A night that began with mind-reading a grateful crustacean and ended with drunken elves would be a night to remember.
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.
I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind.
I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies,
I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential - I was torn between the two.
Fair warning, as it turned out - kindergarten is all about learning which parts of you are welcome at school and which are not.
At twenty-two, I had the callowest possible definition of interesting and, by the measure of my own calipers, was far from interesting myself.