"Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive."

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Source : "The Exchange: Karen Russell on 'Swamplandia!'". Interview with Rachel Hurn, www.newyorker.com. February 15, 2011.

Karen Russell

#Reality Quotes #Everyday Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I hate Mondays - I hate that feeling you've got to get yourself up.”
“Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening ...”
“I've never even been to Long Island”
“What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.”
“In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixedâ€”in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.”
“Lots of people call me Dave, my mum calls me David, my wife calls me Dave, I don't really notice what people call me.”

Source : Interview with Richard Bacon on XFM, September 28, 2006.
“We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.”
“Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .”

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