If you're a writer, you'll know it by the distinct feeling of only being able to breathe properly when alone with your characters. All other times, I'm panting--just pining for the next time I can be with them.


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I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds o...
KAREN DUFFY
Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
KAREN DUFFY
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't tak...
KAREN DUFFY
I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's...
KAREN DUFFY
My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some...
KAREN DUFFY
The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual ch...
KAREN DUFFY
It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to m...
KAREN DUFFY
In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
KAREN DUFFY
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things ...
KAREN BLIXEN
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows ...
KAREN BLIXEN
I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
KAREN BLACK
I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
KAREN BLACK
If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believ...
KAREN BLACK
If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I c...
KAREN BLACK
I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
KAREN BLACK
I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little...
KAREN BLACK
I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dea...
KAREN BLACK
I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
KAREN BLACK
If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK
When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s...
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.
KAREN BASS
It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
KAREN BASS
All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG