Writer Quotes by Jesse Ball

“-Lara is a weasel. I've always hated her. The only happy week I had as a child was when she fell from the roof…

— Jesse Ball

I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

— Jesse Ball

“Our knowledge about ourselves is our least reliable knowledge. Yet, so thoroughly do we ordinarily champion our own cause that it is acknowledged effective…

— Jesse Ball

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

— Jesse Ball

“We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair. -Piet Soron, 1847”

— Jesse Ball

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

— Jesse Ball

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

— Jesse Ball

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

— Jesse Ball

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

— Jesse Ball

“Can you imagine? That you can say something, offhand, and it can matter, it can really matter to someone else? Can you imagine what…

— Jesse Ball

One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to…

— Jesse Ball

“One cultivates one's life, one's friends, one's means, one's hopes. One goes from place to place, from triumph to triumph, in search of ambition…

— Jesse Ball

“The whole thing about people living on in memory is a crock of shit. The best you can do is try to remember what…

— Jesse Ball

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

— Jesse Ball

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it…

— Jesse Ball