Best Jess Walter Quotes
- Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into… Dreamed
- What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead? Dead
- Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain coffee shop, or… Awake
- All we have is the story we tell. All
- My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I… All
- I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel. Explode
- There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of… Conflation
- The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn… Abuse
- There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors. Authors
- There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there. Art
- My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes. Big
- The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. Fiction
- I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for… Became