--- title: "15 You Quotes By Walter Kirn" description: "15 You quotes by Walter Kirn. Plus more from Walter Kirn and more You sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b1/walter-kirn-2189_behaviors_god-is-a-freaking-character-with-enough_2490182.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) > [The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/the-least-sexy-city-is-los-angeles-and-it-poses-as-the-most-sexy-as/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/254/walter-kirn-2189_angeles_the-least-sexy-city-is-los-angeles-and-i_1254567.jpg) > [Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/yes-in-the-commercial-world-there-s-room-for-both-mcdonald-s-and/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/758/walter-kirn-2189_both_yes-in-the-commercial-world-there-s-room_1406002.png) > [You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/you-re-able-to-do-things-in-novels-introduce-subplots-other/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba7/walter-kirn-2189_able_you-re-able-to-do-things-in-novels-intro_1058200.png) > [When I shoot at the range, I don't feel personally powerful but like the custodian of something powerful. I feel like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/when-i-shoot-at-the-range-i-don-t-feel-personally-powerful-but-like/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c2/walter-kirn-2189_alien_when-i-shoot-at-the-range-i-don-t-feel-p_2978762.jpg) > [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) > [You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/you-have-plausible-deniability-as-they-say-in-politics-as-an-author/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37f/walter-kirn-2189_author_you-have-plausible-deniability-as-they-s_933022.jpg) > [Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/remember-daydreams-no-of-course-you-don-t-how-could-you-three-new/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43e/walter-kirn-2189_another_remember-daydreams-no-of-course-you-don_1403764.png) > [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 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) > [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) > [Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not 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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c5/walter-kirn-2189_add_once-you-realize-just-the-sort-of-glut-o_62467.png) > [Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/cross-the-wrong-state-border-with-your-gun-or-wake-up-one-morning-to/) [Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/308/walter-kirn-2189_amendment_cross-the-wrong-state-border-with-your-g_2240082.jpg) > [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 You ## 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/you/walter-kirn/#itemlist", "name": "15 You Quotes By Walter Kirn", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. 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