"I do love the weird, and I realize that I write much in that tradition, so I'm happy to be counted in among some of my favorite authors."

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Karin Tidbeck

#Writing Quotes #Realizing Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.”
“Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.”
“As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.”
“I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.”
“As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.”
“All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.”
“When it comes to taxation, Americans are still banging out letters on a typewriter and dropping them in the mail box while everybody else has moved on to texting and Instagram.”
“There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in a file. Sometimes it's a situation that interests me, and I don't even realize what I'm trying to say about it until I get closer to it. Sometimes the book after that I've written 125 pages of, and I can tell you what the book is after that. I just sort of have a linear progression, but more than anything, the topics land in your lap. I don't feel that I go out searching for them.”

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