Books Quote by Jess Walter Download Open image “I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.” — Jess Walter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novel Stories Writing Writing stories
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories. — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being… — Barry B. Longyear Copy Share Image
Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel, — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist. — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough?” — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“And Pasquale forced himself to look away from her then. It was like prying a magnet off steel, but he did it: he turned… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
