After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths. Kate Christensen Read Quote
Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked. Kate Christensen Read Quote
At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn’t screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate. Kate Christensen Read Quote
On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they’re also allowed to take candy from strangers – the scariest thing of all. Kate Christensen Read Quote
Even more than dying itself, I’m scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down. Kate Christensen Read Quote
Food is not a means toward resolution. It can’t cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas. Kate Christensen Read Quote
It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It’s nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out. Kate Christensen Read Quote
I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse. Kate Christensen Read Quote
