When you take the fact that you're loved for granted, it frees your mind to go after every other thing there is. — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
If you've grown up with guns, the thought that someone might take them away makes your stomach churn. They make you feel… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good? — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Even when I dropped out of high school, they said, 'We trust you, we believe… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“but I rarely did anything I didn't feel like doing, and maybe this was the main difference between the whites and the Comanches, which… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“resacas have all gone dry. The entire earth, it seems, is being slowly transformed into” — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“They all want to be rich, same as we do, but they do not admit to themselves that you only get rich by taking… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“Of course you wanted your children to have it better than you had. But at what point was it not better at all?” — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“I might be killed any day, by whites or hostile Indians, I might be run down by a grizzly or a pack of buffalo… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“You could not measure yourself against the dead, they retained their perfection while your flesh got weaker and weaker.” — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“I have always found it interesting that white children take so quickly to Indian ways, while Indian children, when brought to be raised in… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
