There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
These are the ruins of our memories, which loom in our minds like the Parthenon, even as they are decayed and weathered… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely.… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are,… — Jess Walter Copy Share
Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how… — Jess Walter Copy Share
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction,… — Jess Walter Copy Share
In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to… — Jess Walter Copy Share
“There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the… — Jess Walter Copy Share
People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a… — Jess Walter Copy Share
“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” — Jess Walter Copy Share
“And Pasquale forced himself to look away from her then. It was like prying a magnet off steel, but he did it: he turned… — Jess Walter Copy Share
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a… — Jess Walter Copy Share
Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't… — Jess Walter Copy Share
“How do you think it should end?” Young Pasquale considered the question. “Well, instead of going back to America during the war, he could… — Jess Walter Copy Share
