At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I couldn't understand what was important about school. Dropping out was the first adult decision I made. If I ever have kids,… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I… — 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
I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Cornell changed my life; getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments. — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Even when I dropped out of high school, they said, 'We trust you, we believe… — 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
Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can only write… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“There had been a time when this was not unusual. A time when the wealthy were exemplars. When you held yourself to a higher… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
