I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them. (Karen Thompson Walker)

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

Karen Thompson Walker

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