Quote by Jess Walter Download Open image ““Make them want to give you the thing you're taking.”” — Jess Walter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I know what you want, and you don't need to take it. I can give it to you.” — Krista Ritchie Copy Share Image
“Everyone comes into your life to give you something even if it might as if he/she is taking something from you.” — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA Copy Share Image
“First I give them what they want with the hope that one day they will want what I really have to give them.” — Alejandro Junger Copy Share Image
“Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.” — Kenneth Patchen 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 forward in the boat, closed his eyes, still seeing her standing there in his memory. He shook with the strain of not looking back until they rounded the breakwater into the open sea and Pasquale exhaled,… — Jess Walter Copy Share
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
