I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and Im sure Id love it, because the sentences would be tuned up like music. – Karen Russell
Now Ill read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isnt that a sad confession? But its like my substitute for the roaring fireplace of yore. – Karen Russell
I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips. – Karen Russell
I think that different pleasures work for different readers – a friend of mine wont read anything thats not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but Im a sucker for humor and strangeness. – Karen Russell
It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your portrayal of women. Even when I started out on The Office eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, its completely different. – Mindy Kaling