Children Quote by Philipp Meyer

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…

— Philipp Meyer

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was…

— Philipp Meyer

“but I rarely did anything I didn't feel like doing, and maybe this was the main difference between the whites and the Comanches, which…

— Philipp Meyer

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

— Philipp Meyer

“resacas have all gone dry. The entire earth, it seems, is being slowly transformed into”

— Philipp Meyer

I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With…

— Philipp Meyer

“They all want to be rich, same as we do, but they do not admit to themselves that you only get rich by taking…

— Philipp Meyer

“The strong took from the weak, only the weak believed otherwise.”

— Philipp Meyer

“I might be killed any day, by whites or hostile Indians, I might be run down by a grizzly or a pack of buffalo…

— Philipp Meyer

“You could not measure yourself against the dead, they retained their perfection while your flesh got weaker and weaker.”

— Philipp Meyer

“I have always found it interesting that white children take so quickly to Indian ways, while Indian children, when brought to be raised in…

— Philipp Meyer

Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can only write…

— Philipp Meyer