Philipp Meyer

I couldn't understand what was important about school. Dropping out was the first adult decision I made. If I ever have kids,…

— Philipp Meyer

“All the things you needed to know in life—you didn’t learn them until you’d already made your decisions.”

— Philipp Meyer

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

Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the…

— Philipp Meyer

“Unlike the white, billions of whom shared the same handful of names, all interchangeable in the end, a Comanche name lived and…

— Philipp Meyer

“What we need is another great ice to come and sweep us all into the ocean. To give God a second chance.”

— Philipp Meyer

“There is nothing wrong with my father: he is the natural. The problem is those like myself, who hoped we might rise…

— Philipp Meyer

“Everyone loves the underdog. Until they have to take his side.”

— Philipp Meyer

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

I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries -…

— Philipp Meyer

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

— Philipp Meyer

“The liberals would cheer her death. They would light marijuana cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that…

— Philipp Meyer

My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice…

— Philipp Meyer

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

“Looking over the grave of the Garcias I did not tell him that 1908 was also when they found the caves at…

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“Same as what they taught you as a lifeguard- you have to save yourself before you can save anyone else. ”

— Philipp Meyer

Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But…

— Philipp Meyer

“Toshaway had been right: you had to love others more than you loved your own body, otherwise you would be destroyed, whether…

— Philipp Meyer

“But of course they hadn't done anything. They'd all be born to the right parents, in the right neighborhoods, they went to…

— Philipp Meyer

I should say that generally I'm a pretty happy person, but as soon as I'm done with a project, I'm usually not…

— Philipp Meyer

“How are the Indians on cats?" "I never saw one. Plenty of dogs, though." "They eat the dogs, don't they?" "That's the…

— Philipp Meyer

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

“IT OCCURS TO me that we are entering an era in which the human ear will cease to distinguish sounds. Today I…

— Philipp Meyer

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

— Philipp Meyer

“Perhaps another great ice will come and grind all this into dust. Leaving no trace of our existence, as even fire does.”

— Philipp Meyer