Karen Joy Fowler Quotes

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

You can't just keep bottling the same thing over and over again and think the audience isn't going to catch on.

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

Always the same thing.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

I don't need to be told the same thing every day, every morning, same words.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

The future is a monotonous instrument

Monotony reveals our limitations.

Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

Life isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over.

Life is not one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over and over.

We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo

When you do not change up a lot, people may know you a lot better than they should.

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.