Karen Chase > Karen's Quotes

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I will write my way into another life.”
― Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."

(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)”
― David McCullough

“Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.”
― Leo Buscaglia, Living, Loving & Learning

“Upon returning home, I asked a Parisian friend who lives near me how she does it. How does she manage to adjust to our grocery stores and our food when she comes back from Paris? I was having a heck of a time with it. She shook her head sympathetically and said, “I remember one time I came back to the States. I went to the grocery store. I stood in the aisles. And I cried. I literally cried.”
― Karen A. Chase, Bonjour 40: A Paris travel log

“Books aren't for decoration, they are to improve the design of one's interior.”
― Karen A. Chase

“Writing is a solitary endeavor, being an author is not.”
― Karen A. Chase

“I write what I call “Factual Fiction,” whereby my plot, story and characters are not loosely set in history but intrinsically tied to real events, people and places.”
― Karen A. Chase

“I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.”
― Karen A. Chase

“Maybe the [liberty] bell didn’t crack because of the weight of hypocrisy. Perhaps it couldn’t bear the tension between what America is supposed to be and what it is.”
― Robin Farmer, Malcolm and Me