Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowleris an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 February 1950
CountryUnited States of America
memories mean different
The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.
running book long
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.
utopia
No Utopia is Utopia for everyone
taken people
In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.
june people mad
Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.
way arriving punctuality
Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
letters underestimate wells
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
tree immortality
Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.