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“I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.”

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Deborah King

Deborah King, born in 1958, is an accomplished author known for her diverse works and profound insights. Her writing style is characterized by its unique depth and imagination. more

“I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.”

“I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.”

Want Real Encounters

Author:Karen Russell

“For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.”

Mean Language Term Attention Fiction Paid Experimentation Sophistication

Author:Karen Russell

“So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.”

Thinking Way Book Decision Fantasy Marketing Sci Fi Continuum Fantasy Books

Author:Karen Russell

“It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.”

Long Felt Long Time Red Deny Realist Misrepresentation

Author:Karen Russell

“I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.”

Black Fiction Ghost Hunters Lungs Waitress Jaded Smokers Black Humor

Author:Karen Russell

“I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.”

People Thinking Humans Views Landscape Interaction Flexible Protagonists

Author:Karen Russell

“Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.”

Felt Imagination Church Growing Up Growing Mystery Tree Ocean Catholic Green Landscape Giants My Imagination Catholic Church Embedded Tropical Seamless

Author:Karen Russell

“I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.”

Felt Training Outsiders

Author:Karen Russell

“When I'm drafting, I suppose it's an intuitive process - figuring out when something just has a surreal glaze on it and when it grapples with something that could threaten a character's day-to-day reality.”

Character Reality Process Day To Day Intuitive Surreal Drafting

Author:Karen Russell

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