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
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
People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I love humor in writing, so I've written to the thing that's funny, there's the joke, but then I just kept going.… — 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… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
The neighborhoods I grew up in were poor and full of drug users. I don't think you have to look that hard… — 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
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 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
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
Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me… — 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
And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he… — 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
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
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
