Quotes of Karen Joy Fowler - somelinesforyou

“ 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 offtold story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture. ”

- Karen Joy Fowler

“ A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it. ”

- Karen Joy Fowler

“ I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem. ”

- Karen Joy Fowler

“ I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me. ”

- Karen Joy Fowler

“ There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face. ”

- Karen Joy Fowler

“ There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face. ”

- Karen Joy Fowler
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