Karen Thompson Walker quote: "I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life."

In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist ...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, ...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily l...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in lif...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly ...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself fo...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved t...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pre...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing ...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation o...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound goo...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays,...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on th...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my ow...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature ...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to t...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was ...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

But the past is long, and the future is short.
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER

My name is Anastasia Beaverhausen. Anastasia like russian royalty and Beaverhausen like...where the ...
KAREN WALKER

This measure would require a parent to decide when a child is 9 or 10 years old what his academic ne...
KAREN WALKER

They're close, they are local - not national. When you have a question, often you are calling people...
KAREN WALKER

We just want something to eat and something to drink.
KAREN WALKER

Dr. Munger is paid $121,000, so it sounds pretty much a break-even to me,
KAREN WALKER

It's not like you have to sell a kidney to buy them.
KAREN WALKER

It's a fun product, not a commodity product, so you don't have to worry about them all the time beca...
KAREN WALKER

We hope that you will truly lock him up for the rest of his life and throw away the key.
KAREN THOMPSON

People say you look good, but you don't really feel good.
KAREN THOMPSON

Hair means a lot to women.
KAREN THOMPSON

I think I am comfortable with being disappointed. And I think I am angry at you for taking that away...
KATE WALKER (AKA EMMA THOMPSON)

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son...
MARGARET WALKER

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you ...
MARGARET WALKER

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
MARGARET WALKER

I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER

There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are v...
WALKER STAPLETON

Reforming PERA will strengthen and improve Colorado's all-important long term standing with cred...
WALKER STAPLETON

It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Go...
WALKER STAPLETON

We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded r...
WALKER STAPLETON

As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not spec...
WALKER STAPLETON

If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless ...
WALKER STAPLETON

That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing...
WALKER STAPLETON

When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co...
WALKER STAPLETON

If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're no...
WALKER STAPLETON

Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state...
WALKER STAPLETON

The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legis...
WALKER STAPLETON

Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servan...
WALKER STAPLETON

Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a ba...
WALKER STAPLETON

When you have kids as cute as mine - offsetting my features - you need to highlight them.
WALKER STAPLETON

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
WALKER PERCY

You can get all A's and still flunk life.
WALKER PERCY

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and techn...
WALKER PERCY

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing abou...
WALKER PERCY

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are ...
WALKER EVANS

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that ...
WALKER EVANS

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
WALKER EVANS

I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that ar...
KARA WALKER

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to...
KARA WALKER

Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I...
KARA WALKER

I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with th...
KARA WALKER

I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was alway...
KARA WALKER

There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with ...
KARA WALKER

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it&#...
KARA WALKER

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, an...
KARA WALKER

I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
KARA WALKER

I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the whit...
KARA WALKER

I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive f...
KARA WALKER

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
KARA WALKER

I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that m...
KARA WALKER

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing els...
KARA WALKER

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, m...
KARA WALKER

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpecte...
KARA WALKER

To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You...
KARA WALKER

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
KARA WALKER

Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And...
KARA WALKER

I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing mor...
KARA WALKER

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
KARA WALKER

Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is n...
KARA WALKER

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r...
MARGARET WALKER

I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been.
JIMMY WALKER

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
KARA WALKER

There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black...
KARA WALKER

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim...
ALICE WALKER

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire...
ALICE WALKER

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated...
ALICE WALKER

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
MORT WALKER

Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire...
SCOTT WALKER

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the...
SCOTT WALKER

I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so ...
PAUL WALKER

I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walk...
PAUL WALKER

It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
ALICE WALKER

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's ca...
EAMONN WALKER

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he w...
EAMONN WALKER

Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like...
EAMONN WALKER

I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for i...
EAMONN WALKER

My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die...
MAX WALKER

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are compe...
HERSCHEL WALKER

I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and t...
LUCY WALKER

They have terrific guards and a big front line. They are very, very good.
AL WALKER

I don't know what happened. If I could figure it out we would've stopped it.
AL WALKER

Unfortunately we couldn't make a stop or get a score in the last few minutes. We should have won the...
AL WALKER

Nine is absolutely exceptional. What we gave up on the glass, we did a better job of taking care of ...
AL WALKER

If that's not a man going to work. That is absolutely awesome.
AL WALKER

We have earned four very hard road victories in the conference. We're really looking forward to comi...
AL WALKER

Andre played the best [back-to-back] games of anyone in my six years coaching here. He especially pl...
AL WALKER

I think we're really starting to come around. We understand that we can be good if we defend, reboun...
AL WALKER

We went on the road and won four games, which is tremendous. Now we start the next segment of the se...
AL WALKER

They certainly had an offensive performance today. Those guys have the green light to take shots and...
AL WALKER

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could...
PAUL WALKER

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo...
ALICE WALKER

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th...
ALICE WALKER

What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved ove...
WALKER PERCY

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.
ADDISON WALKER

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosqui...
MICHELLE WALKER

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any
ALICE WALKER

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
ALICE WALKER

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make you...
ALICE WALKER

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have
ALICE WALKER

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre...
ALICE WALKER

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some...
ALICE WALKER

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,...
ALICE WALKER

I'm a science guy. I'm a geek. I love geology and botany and marine science. I thought maybe...
PAUL WALKER

As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.
HERSCHEL WALKER

He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.
WENDY WALKER

I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern ...
WALKER PERCY

The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native gro...
ALICE WALKER

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch...
ALICE WALKER

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
ALICE WALKER

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t...
ALICE WALKER

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ...
ALICE WALKER

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr...
ALICE WALKER

What we are seeking is for the federal government to pick up the gap, ... The amount that they offer...
ALLEN WALKER

I'm attached to my sailors. I'm not attached to my ship. (As) long as I bring my sailors back home t...
ALLEN WALKER

If I had my druthers, we would have been finished with this months ago,
ALLEN WALKER

I like living in a smaller town better than I do the city. People in Memphis are spread out doing th...
ALLEN WALKER

We lost everything in the house as far as the house goes. Didn't have no insurance on none of it.
ALLEN WALKER

It finally seems to be the right time. We seem to have an increased interest in nursing in our stude...
ALLEN WALKER

Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, G...
ALICE WALKER

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
ALICE WALKER

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than bl...
ALICE WALKER

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previou...
ALICE WALKER

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
ALICE WALKER

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative sp...
ALICE WALKER

Winning doesn't satisfy us -- we need to do it again, and again. The taste of success seems merely t...
STUART WALKER

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conceptio...
ALICE WALKER

Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to ...
ALICE WALKER

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
HERSCHEL WALKER

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
HERSCHEL WALKER

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.
ALICE WALKER

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. T...
WALKER PERCY

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
ALICE WALKER

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
WALKER PERCY

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have ...
ALICE WALKER

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre...
ALICE WALKER

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produc...
ALICE WALKER

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
ALICE WALKER

In search of my mother's garden I found my own.
ALICE WALKER

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never de...
ALICE WALKER

I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is th...
WALKER PERCY

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black wo...
ALICE WALKER

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addis...
ADDISON WALKER

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh pea...
THOMAS WALKER

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than...
ALICE WALKER

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to re...
ALICE WALKER

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout
ALICE WALKER

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be sav...
ALICE WALKER

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
MARGARET WALKER

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and ...
STANLEY WALKER

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose ...
ALICE WALKER

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.
ALICE WALKER

I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age ...
PAUL WALKER

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and p...
ALICE WALKER

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future t...
ALICE WALKER

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
ALICE WALKER

I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, ...
PAUL WALKER

I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.
KARA WALKER

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-p...
LUCY WALKER

I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and g...
PAUL WALKER

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money a...
ALICE WALKER

I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the...
SCOTT WALKER

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
ALICE WALKER

The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It ma...
JIMMY WALKER

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of y...
ALICE WALKER

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
MARGARET WALKER

Thing is, I went to a born-again Christian high school, was brought up in a traditional Mormon famil...
PAUL WALKER

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificen...
PAUL WALKER

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a sec...
MARGARET WALKER

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, ...
ALICE WALKER

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to wat...
DREAMA WALKER

The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.
JIMMY WALKER

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
MARGARET WALKER

I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.
ALICE WALKER

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

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I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

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