Karen Thompson Walker
Karen Thompson Walker
The Age of Miracles is the debut novel of American writer Karen Thompson Walker, published in June 2012 by Random House in the United States and Simon & Schuster in the United Kingdom. The book chronicles the fictional phenomenon of 'slowing', in which one Earth day takes longer to complete...
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years looks fiction
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
christian miracle different
We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.
believe stories way
I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message.
thinking worry kind
In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.
motivation inspiration focus
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
thinking california miracle
Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.
book attention chance
It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.
beautiful writing college
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
beautiful girl summer
This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.
disappointment age would-be
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.