--- title: "12 Who Quotes By Walter Kirn" description: "12 Who quotes by Walter Kirn. Plus more from Walter Kirn and more Who sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/763/walter-kirn-2189_ask_ask-jeeves-who-ever-used-that-thing-coll_408009.png" --- > [Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/ask-jeeves-who-ever-used-that-thing-college-freshmen-to-find-out-who/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/763/walter-kirn-2189_ask_ask-jeeves-who-ever-used-that-thing-coll_408009.png) > [A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/a-writer-who-isn-t-writing-is-asking-for-trouble/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc6/walter-kirn-2189_asking_a-writer-who-isn-t-writing-is-asking-for_935351.png) > [God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/god-is-a-freaking-character-with-enough-foibles-tantrums-and/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b1/walter-kirn-2189_behaviors_god-is-a-freaking-character-with-enough_2490182.png) > [Guns can turn you into an insider even if you're an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/guns-can-turn-you-into-an-insider-even-if-you-re-an-outsider-by/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/222/walter-kirn-2189_allies_guns-can-turn-you-into-an-insider-even-i_2188185.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) > [Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/realize-that-the-game-of-life-is-the-game-of-to-some-extent-being/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08c/walter-kirn-2189_advantage_realize-that-the-game-of-life-is-the-gam_2001739.png) > [The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/the-room-service-caesar-salads-with-soggy-croutons-the-distant/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/829/walter-kirn-2189_after_the-room-service-caesar-salads-with-sogg_2175664.png) > [I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/i-have-very-specific-advice-for-aspiring-writers-go-to-new-york-and/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/920/walter-kirn-2189_about_i-have-very-specific-advice-for-aspiring_898264.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) > [We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/we-want-to-believe-that-we-re-invulnerable-and-that-people-who-get/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b52/walter-kirn-2189_arrogant_we-want-to-believe-that-we-re-invulnerab_2612344.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) > [There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and,…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/430/walter-kirn-2189_about_there-are-two-sides-to-me-one-is-the-wri_68167.jpg) ## Other authors on Who ## 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/who/walter-kirn/#itemlist", "name": "12 Who Quotes By Walter Kirn", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Ask Jeeves! 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