--- title: "12 Them Quotes By Walter Kirn" description: "12 Them quotes by Walter Kirn. Plus more from Walter Kirn and more Them sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdb/walter-kirn-2189_book_i-love-reference-books-especially-collec_1469033.png" --- > [I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/i-love-reference-books-especially-collections-of-memorable-quotations/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdb/walter-kirn-2189_book_i-love-reference-books-especially-collec_1469033.png) > [Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/horror-and-panic-themselves-are-forms-of-violence-and-diminishing/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/walter-kirn-2189_act_horror-and-panic-themselves-are-forms-of_305367.png) > [I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/i-think-people-get-a-sense-of-possibility-when-they-re-on-a-plane/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/464/walter-kirn-2189_down_i-think-people-get-a-sense-of-possibilit_2138425.png) > [Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I'd be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/statistics-on-the-dangers-guns-pose-to-the-health-of-their-owners-and/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc9/walter-kirn-2189_amendment_statistics-on-the-dangers-guns-pose-to-t_3158930.png) > [There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/there-are-two-different-forms-of-storytelling-novels-tend-to-come/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6e/walter-kirn-2189_books_there-are-two-different-forms-of-storyte_1735602.png) > [A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/a-true-nature-is-a-gloomy-monolith-sort-of-like-that-old-black-rotary/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec5/walter-kirn-2189_behave_a-true-nature-is-a-gloomy-monolith-sort_2260624.jpg) > [I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/i-ve-noticed-that-the-few-times-i-ve-traveled-first-class-myself-you/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/walter-kirn-2189_been_i-ve-noticed-that-the-few-times-i-ve-tra_1987067.png) > [The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/the-fictionally-correct-have-all-the-answers-and-that-s-what-s-wrong/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/323/walter-kirn-2189_adjustment_the-fictionally-correct-have-all-the-ans_2014754.png) > [Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/novelists-who-pretend-to-understand-what-keeps-them-scribbling-are/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/walter-kirn-2189_acknowledged_novelists-who-pretend-to-understand-what_593505.png) > [No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/no-matter-how-you-cut-them-paste-them-rotate-them-or-distort-them-lip/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f73/walter-kirn-2189_activities_no-matter-how-you-cut-them-paste-them-ro_484320.png) > [We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/we-re-on-twitter-with-one-side-of-our-personality-and-facebook-with/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40d/walter-kirn-2189_another_we-re-on-twitter-with-one-side-of-our-pe_2951395.png) > [The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/the-idea-that-americans-favor-politicians-who-either-remind-them-of/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b69/walter-kirn-2189_american_the-idea-that-americans-favor-politician_104773.png) ## Other authors on Them ## More by Walter Kirn > [Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/everyone-loves-a-witch-hunt-as-long-as-it-s-someone-else-s-witch/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [“I just wasn't ready for his stories. They'd breed with the others I'd heard and hatch new monsters, because there was no such thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/i-just-wasn-t-ready-for-his-stories-they-d-breed-with-the-others-i-d/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/it-s-no-accident-that-most-self-help-groups-use-anonymous-in-their/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [“For time to pass it would have to go somewhere, and where would that be? Time sits. We move, it sits. Sometimes it trembles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/for-time-to-pass-it-would-have-to-go-somewhere-and-where-would-that/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/once-you-realize-just-the-sort-of-glut-of-books-that-exists-out-there/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/there-are-two-sides-to-me-one-is-the-writer-that-s-a-savage-person/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/i-remember-the-first-time-i-went-to-italy-when-i-was-eighteen-i-was/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/quiet-cunning-bested-boastful-brawn/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/the-idea-that-americans-favor-politicians-who-either-remind-them-of/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [“Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/our-habit-of-wishing-backward-from-what-is-to-what-might-have-been-is/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/memo-to-extreme-partisans-if-you-can-t-bring-yourselves-to-love-your/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/people-can-be-so-neglectful-of-each-other-and-of-their-own-heritage/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/i-d-assumed-that-a-deal-was-a-deal-when-princeton-admitted-me-but-i/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/the-reason-that-last-ditch-political-maneuvering-has-become-business/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) > [“Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/meanness-on-request-isn-t-meanness-at-all-but-kindness-carried-too-far/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/them/walter-kirn/#itemlist", "name": "12 Them Quotes By Walter Kirn", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. 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