Karen Joy Fowler Quotes

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

Karen Joy Fowler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 7, 1950

Topics

GoodWritingStoryMoreWhereThan

In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.

Jimmy Iovine

BusinessEntertainmentSeemValley

Economic growth is very important, but it is not the only thing, and it must be accompanied by sharing with those who are left behind, through effective social services and provision.

Angus Deaton

GrowthImportantSharingThrough

The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.

St. Vincent

PeopleThinkYouTrainFairOut

I was always controversial, being gay, so nothing was more controversial than that.

Martina Navratilova

GayNothingMoreAlwaysBeingThan

It's hard to change someone's ideas when they might not even really consciously know that they're being racist, or have racist ideas, just because ballet has been this way for hundreds of years.

Misty Copeland

ChangeIdeasSomeoneKnowWayHard

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.

Lisa Marie Presley

FamilyPeopleEndGlassLivingWay

The moment I let fear slip in is the moment that the fights are gonna start getting closer and closer.

Jon Jones

FearMomentStartCloserFights

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Christopher Lasch

FamilySocietyNowQuestionSides

Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies.

Christine Pelosi

WomenPowerAmericaLongWealthTop

There's a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that!

Colin Trevorrow

LifeWorldBuildingEnjoySynergy

The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to those people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation.

Claire Messud

LifeWorkArtBestEffortPeople

I'm a Raider. Die hard Raider.

Art Shell

DieHardDie HardRaider

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