Philipp Meyer

“when blood does not belong to your kin it might as well be wine or water. In”

— Philipp Meyer

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

— Philipp Meyer

Cornell changed my life; getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments.

— Philipp Meyer

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

— Philipp Meyer

I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get.

— Philipp Meyer

“I had never known there were so many people on earth.”

— Philipp Meyer

“could not be expected to part with them.”

— Philipp Meyer

Whenever I'm interested in something, I make sure I'm really good at it.

— Philipp Meyer

“People like him think you can apologize things away, that you can confess over and over until you are free to repeat…

— Philipp Meyer

My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with…

— Philipp Meyer

“When is the army getting here?” “Never,” he said. “Well . . . One riot, one Ranger.” “Sure. Unless you’re the one Ranger.”

— Philipp Meyer

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when…

— Philipp Meyer

“It had become clear to me that the lives of the rich and famous were not so differ from the lies of…

— Philipp Meyer

“Of course you wanted your children to have it better than you had. But at what point was it not better at…

— Philipp Meyer

My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice…

— Philipp Meyer

“I went upstairs to my office, lay in the dark among my books - the only comforting thing I have.”

— Philipp Meyer

“But if she has ever had a thought that did not in some way involve herself, I have not heard of it.…

— Philipp Meyer

“It was like this all up and down the river and many of the young people, the way they accepted their lack…

— Philipp Meyer

I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone…

— Philipp Meyer

“That was the thing about Simon and all the others, so pleasant on the surface, always knowing what to say, but underneath…

— Philipp Meyer

Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can…

— Philipp Meyer

When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I…

— Philipp Meyer

“The white people are crazy. They all want to be rich, same as we do, but they do not admit to themselves…

— Philipp Meyer

Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But…

— Philipp Meyer

“I don't have to tell you what this land used to look like," he said. "And you don't have to tell me…

— Philipp Meyer

The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior…

— Philipp Meyer

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom…

— Philipp Meyer

“I have spent most of my life trying to figure out what goes on inside your mind,” he said. “First I thought…

— Philipp Meyer

“Impossible to believe we are truly in God's image. Something of the reptile in us yet, the caveman's allegiance to the spear.…

— Philipp Meyer

“The liberals would cheer her death. They would light marijuana cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that…

— Philipp Meyer

“A man, a life - it was barely worth mentioning. The Visigoths had destroyed the Romans, and had themselves been destroyed by…

— Philipp Meyer

“Looking over the grave of the Garcias I did not tell him that 1908 was also when they found the caves at…

— Philipp Meyer

“One day a few houses appeared," said Toshaway. "Someone had been cutting the trees. Of course we did not mind, in the…

— Philipp Meyer

“But of course they hadn't done anything. They'd all be born to the right parents, in the right neighborhoods, they went to…

— Philipp Meyer

“With the exception of Nuukaru and Escute, I had no doubts about my loyalties. Which were in the following order: to any…

— Philipp Meyer

Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.

— Philipp Meyer

“Only bullets and walls make for honest neighbors.”

— Philipp Meyer

“Everyone loves the underdog. Until they have to take his side.”

— Philipp Meyer

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

— Philipp Meyer

“Follow your footprints long enough and they will turn into those of a beast.”

— Philipp Meyer