“Sometimes I feel like a writer, sometimes I just feel like a snitch.” — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I used to say, for me, writing was like walking a high wire, and heroin made me forget there was no net.… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side benefit – the skills… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
“Not until I stopped doing drugs altogether did I feel like a man. Not until I walked out of that fire did I have… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
“Not doing something crude right off is about as close as a guy like me ever gets to class.” — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
My own theory is that people are just so desperate for somebody they can feel better than, in America. Now that everyone's going broke… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
“...with enough rock in your system, you could hear every noise in the universe.” — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
“There are stories you don't want to tell, and there are stories that scald your brainpan right down to the tongue at the mere… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
“In some odd gush of patriotism, my mother had once vomited on the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty, and a bust of Benjamin… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
“Being a junkie, when you broke it down, was nothing more than a crazed day job.” — Jerry Stahl Copy Share
