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.
From Karen Thompson Walker
I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.
In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.
I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.
I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.
Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
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?
I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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