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I freaked out. I'm generally a calm, level-headed person who doesn't get too excited about much. But that day I literally floated.


Karen Neuburger

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KAREN BLACK If you can write it, I can be it.
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KAREN BENDER You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You do...
KAREN BENDER At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop...
KAREN BENDER Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, fra...
KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&...
KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
KAREN BENDER Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.
KAREN BENDER I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
KAREN BASS My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
KAREN BASS You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected officia...
KAREN BASS When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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