Karen Joy Fowler quote: "I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all."

I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
KAREN JOY FOWLER

I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had ...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that.
KAREN JOY FOWLER

In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would hav...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
KAREN JOY FOWLER

Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fic...
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as ...
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My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triu...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produc...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I ofte...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husb...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
KAREN JOY FOWLER

If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as...
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Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - ...
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other peo...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of fo...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hea...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an eas...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

Pheromones are Earth’s primordial idiom.
KAREN JOY FOWLER

I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds ...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
KAREN JOY FOWLER

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person w...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd w...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I ca...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your th...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

Language does this to our memories—simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story ...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?"
"Oh...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

I appreciated her vigor. I admired her choices though I wouldn’t have made them. Freak or fake, I�...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.
KAREN JOY FOWLER

But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.
KAREN JOY FOWLER

You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer be...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories see...
KAREN FOWLER

Today, Web services is really about developing for the server. What it means to developers is any se...
JOHN FOWLER

During this transition period, we will continue to work closely with (Bayer) to enhance the viabilit...
ALAN FOWLER

And we'll probably draw even more next time.
ALAN FOWLER

The kids really seem to be enjoying themselves. It's good to get as many kids involved in junior gol...
ALAN FOWLER

They (Boys and Girls Club) were excited to be out there on the course hitting. All the kids were abl...
ALAN FOWLER

Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull.
JIM FOWLER

Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franc...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on yo...
GENE FOWLER

Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country whe...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock o...
GENE FOWLER

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved...
GENE FOWLER

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to uns...
GENE FOWLER

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
GENE FOWLER

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget whe...
GENE FOWLER

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while...
SIMON FOWLER

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his m...
GENE FOWLER

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild ar...
JIM FOWLER

I don't want to live life too cautiously. I mean, you can step off a curb and twist your ankle.
RICKIE FOWLER

I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and po...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. ...
CARY FOWLER

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or p...
CARY FOWLER

I don't want to be just known for the way I dress. I want to be known for how I play, how I trea...
RICKIE FOWLER

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quali...
JIM FOWLER

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, in...
THERESE FOWLER

I left school on a wet Thursday afternoon, found a room in a shared house in North London, and start...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the ...
CARY FOWLER

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and '...
CARY FOWLER

It's harder to score well in a slow round. The tendency is to overthink shots while you're w...
RICKIE FOWLER

Playing on the PGA Tour and playing professional golf, I think it's what everyone has dreamed of...
RICKIE FOWLER

It's pretty cool to see yourself on a video game.
RICKIE FOWLER

I'm one of a few guys on the PGA Tour who doesn't work with an instructor. I'm not sayin...
RICKIE FOWLER

It's a lot harder to break bones in golf than motocross. But that made me fearless in a way.
RICKIE FOWLER

There's still nothing I love more than being in the air. I've always liked speed and things ...
RICKIE FOWLER

In my case, I was placing extreme pressure on my lower spine from rotating my hips too much. This is...
RICKIE FOWLER

One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't...
RICKIE FOWLER

My grandpa was the one; he started taking up golf when I was about two and introduced me to the game...
RICKIE FOWLER

I'd love to have a lasting impact as far as growing the game. It would be cool to be remembered ...
RICKIE FOWLER

I draw a younger crowd who can relate to me. Some of the girl fans will message me online, saying, &...
RICKIE FOWLER

On a dirt bike, when you're sizing up a jump, you can't have any second thoughts. You have t...
RICKIE FOWLER

Obviously, signing on with Puma right when I turned pro, it's been a great fit for me to show of...
RICKIE FOWLER

I come from great stock. I didn't come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep fo...
RICKIE FOWLER

I get out in my boat and go fishing inshore and offshore.
RICKIE FOWLER

I just kind of hang out, watch movies and play golf.
RICKIE FOWLER

Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA To...
RICKIE FOWLER

Mom always got me to school and the driving range while Dad was working. She also kept me quiet and ...
RICKIE FOWLER

The way I see it, thinking about the position of the club during the swing is about the worst way to...
RICKIE FOWLER

It's great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead ...
RICKIE FOWLER

Some of my fans don't really like it when I respond to people who say things that are trying to ...
RICKIE FOWLER

All you can do is really the prep work and make sure you're ready to hit each golf shot. Outside...
RICKIE FOWLER

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
GENE FOWLER

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
JIM FOWLER

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
GENE FOWLER

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day n...
ROBBIE FOWLER

The distinctions of what makes a book one genre or another can sometimes be a bit muddy, but general...
THERESE FOWLER

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

The visibility and awareness of these issues goes much deeper into the general public than it did ev...
ALEX FOWLER

Today's automatic transmissions get gas mileage that's just as good.
ALEX FOWLER

That was the argument for the universal 55 mph speed limit during the gas shortages of the '70s.
ALEX FOWLER

This is a big deal. It can get 55 to 60 mph easily.
ALEX FOWLER

Air conditioning reduces fuel efficiency 15 to 20 percent. Opening the windows is actually better fo...
ALEX FOWLER

Office buildings and government buildings have surveillance set up. Online, it's pretty easy picking...
ALEX FOWLER

In the situation that we're seeing right now where Milosevic has expelled all foreign reporters the ...
ALEX FOWLER

This is very early on in this crisis and Milosevic moved very quickly to try to silence those source...
ALEX FOWLER

You only have to see one privacy policy to realize it doesn't have a lot of teeth to it. People are ...
ALEX FOWLER

As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since t...
THERESE FOWLER

I love being able to sign autographs when I get that extra free time after a round just to be able t...
RICKIE FOWLER

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting ...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is b...
ROBBIE FOWLER

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
GENE FOWLER

When I was a kid, dressing right and looking good was a priority. As I grew up, I just wanted to sta...
RICKIE FOWLER

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
GENE FOWLER

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He ...
GENE FOWLER

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
JIM FOWLER

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.
JIM FOWLER

The state ... said those resources would be here at noon. That did not happen. They began arriving l...
CARL FOWLER

Generally you don't want to make decisions too early with these storms.
CARL FOWLER

If you saw a Category 4 hurricane come in here, you could see hundreds of thousands of structures da...
CARL FOWLER

At this point, residents should have plenty of time to get their hurricane supplies together, if the...
CARL FOWLER

Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on ...
GENE FOWLER

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock o...
GENE FOWLER

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.
JIM FOWLER

i love reading because it is fun
ELLE FOWLER

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your for...
GENE FOWLER

An editor should have a pimp for a brother, so he'd have someone to look up to.
GENE FOWLER

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.
JIM FOWLER

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.
JIM FOWLER

This was a no-knock search warrant. We surprised them. Armstrong was outside the house when we got t...
ROBERT FOWLER

It's 2010. I'm forty-three years old. I've just turned in the final draft of what will b...
THERESE FOWLER

Oh yeah, this is a national story. Being here at the beginning of this era, the curiosity, the intri...
CHRIS FOWLER

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves
GENE FOWLER

It is easier to believe than to doubt.
GENE FOWLER

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
GENE FOWLER

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins
GENE FOWLER

His life probably couldn't be any harder. He's on the lowest rung of anybody in the jail. He's const...
RICHARD FOWLER

My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whi...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actio...
CARY FOWLER

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.
JIM FOWLER

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the...
GENE FOWLER

After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another rel...
ROBBIE FOWLER

But at least you gave me credit for getting the right people to buy the team from Red McCombs,
REGGIE FOWLER

You were pretty rough on me,
REGGIE FOWLER

The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your...
JIM FOWLER

Tony Giordano's 3-pointers put an end to our comeback and turned the tide. Take your pick. All three...
MARK FOWLER

When you don?t make your free throws and you don?t make the big stops, you can?t win games that way....
MARK FOWLER

I think they kept it close with their 3-point shooting.
MARK FOWLER

I think we really got our running game going. Once we start running, we can really put a lot of poin...
MARK FOWLER

Marco missed eight games this season, but he deserves to be a first team all-star. He's had triple-d...
MARK FOWLER

(Counseling centers) aren't going to find it just showing up on their doorstep.
PAT FOWLER

There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable ...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to uns...
GENE FOWLER

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.
JIM FOWLER

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have...
THERESE FOWLER

His new life required no great change in the patterns of his behaviour. It was merely an adjustment....
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your ...
GENE FOWLER

Salaries for nursing faculty are particularly low when compared to those earned by nurses in hospita...
CHRIS FOWLER

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
GENE FOWLER

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.
GENE FOWLER

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his m...
GENE FOWLER

Sometimes I think [my writing] sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
GENE FOWLER

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves
GENE FOWLER

I guess we still have 72 hours to pit them against Napoleon's Army, the Jedi Council and King Kong.
CHRIS FOWLER

I haven't had a chance to break down tape on USC vs. the Jedi Council. USC against Godzilla and King...
CHRIS FOWLER

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship, ... But get real, when everyone ...
ROBBIE FOWLER

[As revealing as anything in Fowler's autobiography is the claim that his financial advisor, George ...
ROBBIE FOWLER

Last season I counted four fingers at them for the number of European Cups Liverpool had won. Next t...
ROBBIE FOWLER

Honest to God, I'm so happy it's frightening! I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say.
ROBBIE FOWLER

We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester ...
ROBBIE FOWLER

It is not for me to say whether I have done well enough, personally I believe I have not done too ba...
ROBBIE FOWLER

San Diego has always had a champagne appetite and a beer budget,
JOHN FOWLER

We're in one of those lull periods where the market is just about to go into a period where it gets ...
STUART FOWLER

When you get frustrated or upset and are dwelling on something that you can't do anything about anyw...
CATHERINE FOWLER

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
JIM FOWLER

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.
JIM FOWLER

My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to do...
THERESE FOWLER

We find ways to win. Even when we?re not at our best - like tonight - these girls find ways to win.
DENNIS FOWLER

Last year Terryville played us tight in two one-goal games. Their defense was just as tough today.
DENNIS FOWLER

Last year Terryville played us tight in two one-goal games. Their defense was just as tough today,
DENNIS FOWLER

The kids worked hard pretty much for the whole game. I was impressed about how we executed today (an...
DENNIS FOWLER

(Considine) is just a real solid player. She starts here back and forth, we mix the line-up around a...
DENNIS FOWLER

This will definitely gut the head off one of the serpents. We hope this will discourage such activit...
DENNIS FOWLER

They called themselves that because (Mississippi) is where the crack was coming from. There's a fede...
DENNIS FOWLER

The funding from that grant ends after this year. And, we have been told it won't be renewed. So, if...
DENNIS FOWLER

We have built several hundred homes on the Central Coast. We want every buyer to be happy with their...
BOB FOWLER

We almost had a miracle year in terms of how the harvest season went.
GREG FOWLER

This just an omen to the future of this nation's water.
DENNIS FOWLER

You almost have to get Nevada into that mix and maybe even Colorado to make it a truly attractive pa...
DON FOWLER

We are inclined to believe that the rise in U.S. small- capitalization stocks has gone beyond the po...
GORDON FOWLER

If two people ride the same horse, one must ride behind
BISHOP FOWLER

The goal is not to cover ground that has already been covered, ... The agent knows exactly what you'...
DAVID FOWLER

I'm just enjoying the ride.
REGGIE FOWLER

What can you say about Anna Baldwin? She?s the best athlete in the league.
DENNIS FOWLER

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said...
GENE FOWLER

I'd rather stop them in the beginning before they get into trouble with children.
BEA FOWLER

He?s a difference maker. Whenever things got tight, he either got to the foul line or he made some t...
MARK FOWLER

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sigh...
THERESE FOWLER

I went looking for some preliminary information, and very quickly was struck by the sort of way the ...
THERESE FOWLER

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can ...
MARTIN FOWLER

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the...
JIM FOWLER

We came in this world together. So we're going out together.
CATHERINE FOWLER

I don't want to be attached to you, either. I want to do some things you don't know about.
CATHERINE FOWLER

It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, wh...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.
JIM FOWLER

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two pe...
ROBBIE FOWLER

I don't even like walking up a ladder; I'm petrified of heights.
SIMON FOWLER

I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.

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