"Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find."

“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.”

“A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.”

“It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.”

“If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.”

“The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.”

“Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.37, Serpent's Tail

“Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.”

“I bury my mind in my book, the Bible. Every morning it's the first thing that I do. I've been doing it for years and years. So I want to come back here [to Israel] to see the places that I read about every day. It's very important to my faith to feed [my] spirit in Israel.”