“First, her father had a minor stroke, giving Claire a glimpse of his mortality and, by extension, her own. And then she… — 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
What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead? — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be… — 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
“He was part of a ruined generation of young men coddled by their parents -by their mothers especially- raised on unearned self-esteem,… — 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
“Alarmingly, though, on top of the bookcase there is also a family portrait of Bea with two just-as-striking blond-and-blue-eyed sisters and a… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story ... your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story...your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if… — 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
