Karen Joy Fowler

An "attack on SeaWorld" might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author__ back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.

The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn__ mean that the story isn__ true,only that I honestly don__ know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.

We call them feelings because we feel them.