Karen Joy Fowler Quotes

If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.

I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.

For all that we can see from the road in China, there is a lot that we cannot see. We miss what's behind the trees, the cover-ups, the darker side of things - the ingredients that so often drive a reporting trip.

And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.

By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.

People tend to be scared of what they can't see.

We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.

Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.

The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.

The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.

I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.

I prefer to think of film making - you know, um, the sweat is supposed to be invisible. But a lot of sweat can go into making a film. But of course, if you enjoy doing it, you enjoy doing it.

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

She didn't even notice right away that a small animal had come out from behind a nearby car and was slowly making its way toward the trash can she was standing near. She flipped through some old files in her mind, trying to come up with what this thing might be, and after a few seconds decided that--impossible as it seemed--it was a fox.

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle , and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.