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Top 95 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jess Walter
Jess Walter Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Our lives have a way of eddying back on themselves, offering us the same view over and over, daring us to get it right just once.
He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.
The whole world is sick ... we've all got this pathetic need to be seen. We're a bunch of fucking toddlers trying to get attention.
I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.
And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?
mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it. Pasquale waited until the
Couldn't you outgrow the little-girl fantasy? Couldn't love be gentler, smaller, quiter, not quite all-consuming?
And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.
I guess I forgot we were going out tonight."
"We always go out on Fridays."
"It's Thursday, Alvis."
"You are so tied to routine.
"We always go out on Fridays."
"It's Thursday, Alvis."
"You are so tied to routine.
Whole worlds exist beneath the surface. And maybe you can't see down there, Michael thought, but there's a part of you that knows.
That's why people write books and stories, no doubt, to leave some impression behind, to share a sense of the beauty and pain. This
I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.
The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.
Divination of true nature. Of motivation. Of desirous hearts. I saw the whole world in a flash and I recognized it at once: We want what we want.
He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.
You can't just say that, Pasquale. Those words have tremendous power. It's how people end up married.
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through.
It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that desire.
On any given day in Spokane, Washington, there are more adult men per capita riding children's BMX bikes than in any other city in the world.
There was nothing explicit between them, nothing more than that slightly open door. And yet . . . what could be more alluring? In
My poems ... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.
The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.
You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.
Something about the memory caused him to tear up, to think again about the unknowable nature of the people we love.
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 pure tragedy.
My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well.
This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.
Oh, the things she would say if she could--but it's a minefield of courtesies and manners, this dying business.
These are the ruins of our memories, which loom in our minds like the Parthenon, even as they are decayed and weathered by time and regret.