"An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer."

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Source : "The Writing Life: An Interview with Karen Thompson Walker". Hazel & Wren Interview, www.hazelandwren.com. July 24, 2012.

Karen Thompson Walker

#Editors Quotes #Reader Quotes

“To live without risk is to risk not living.”
“My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them beneath the juniper tree, Tweet, tweet, what a beautiful bird am I.”
“I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.”
“I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects”
“One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.”

Source : A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber
“The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.”
“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”
“Scientist alone is true poet.”

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