At one point, I had a story accepted at the ‘New Yorker,’ which sent off weird bells in people when I told them – ‘Oh,’ they thought, ‘now you are a writer’ – where I really had been for the last 30-odd years. Karen Bender Read Quote
Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you’ve written is any good, or anything. Karen Bender Read Quote
Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism. Karen Bender Read Quote
My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students – and this in the middle of the Bible Belt. Karen Bender Read Quote
When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother. Karen Bender Read Quote
Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating. Karen Bender Read Quote
Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs. Karen Bender Read Quote
Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview. Karen Bender Read Quote
