He had been very keen on Esperanto, which had seemed an absurd eccentricity at the time but now Ursula thought it might be a good thing to have a universal language, as Latin had once been. Oh, yes, Miss Woolf said, a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.

Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.

The only fool he tolerated gladly was himself

These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They&#39;re the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.

I feel like writing a book there&#39;s always a version in your head that&#39;s an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

Karen Thompson Walker

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