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 Copy Share Image
I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me;… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“I went upstairs to my office. Lay in the dark among my books. The only comforting thing I have. An exile in… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job,… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“I went upstairs to my office, lay in the dark among my books - the only comforting thing I have.” — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are. — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“Man today lives in a coffin of flesh. Hearing and seeing nothing. The Land and Law are perverted. The Good Book says… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“but I rarely did anything I didn't feel like doing, and maybe this was the main difference between the whites and the Comanches, which… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“resacas have all gone dry. The entire earth, it seems, is being slowly transformed into” — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“They all want to be rich, same as we do, but they do not admit to themselves that you only get rich by taking… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“Of course you wanted your children to have it better than you had. But at what point was it not better at all?” — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“I might be killed any day, by whites or hostile Indians, I might be run down by a grizzly or a pack of buffalo… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“You could not measure yourself against the dead, they retained their perfection while your flesh got weaker and weaker.” — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“I have always found it interesting that white children take so quickly to Indian ways, while Indian children, when brought to be raised in… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
