The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell… — 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 realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me.… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's… — 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
