“Claire happy to no longer expect...but embrace the sweet lovely mess that is real life.” — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough?” — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe” — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“But aren't all great quests folly? El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth and the search for intelligent life in the cosmos--… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about. “Please,” Pasquale rasped… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right… — 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
“But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I think so, too. I know I felt that way. For years. It was as if I was a character in a… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Then we'll make a deal, you and me. We'll do and say exactly what we mean. And to hell with what anyone… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Your parents don't get to tell your story. Your sisters don't. When he's old enough, even Pat doesn't get to tell your… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute.… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“But aren't all great quests folly? El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth and the search for intelligent life in the cosmos--… — 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 Image
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 Image
“What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough?” — 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 be fiction,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“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 Image
I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
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 Image
