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Bit yells, Homeless Hungry? Dude, I invented Homeless Hungry. The kid just waves. — Jess Walter

And he waited - as he always had - for life to come and find him. — Jess Walter

I'm certainly eclectic in my writing. — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction. — Jess Walter

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about. — Jess Walter

If you want to make art, go get a job at the Loov-rah. — Jess Walter

No, no, we are definitely writ on water. Or cognac
if we've any luck at all. — Jess Walter

Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all. — Jess Walter

The more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe — Jess Walter

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision. — Jess Walter

We live in a world of banal miracles. — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

Claire happy to no longer expect ... but embrace the sweet lovely mess that is real life. — Jess Walter

Two kinds of people always lie about their ages: actresses and Latin American pitchers. — Jess Walter

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself. — Jess Walter

Pure talent and charisma and like gods they were terrible together. Awful. A gorgeous nightmare. — Jess Walter

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it. — Jess Walter

Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing. — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight? — Jess Walter

We want what we want — Jess Walter

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 — Jess Walter

Couldn't you outgrow the little-girl fantasy? Couldn't love be gentler, smaller, quiter, not quite all-consuming? — Jess Walter

Maybe all love is hopeless. — Jess Walter

She laughed. 'That's what I love about you good-lookin' blokes. What, me? Have sex? — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

What business does memory have with time? — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

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 — Jess Walter

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel. — Jess Walter

She was asleep, that blond hair swirled like butter on the pillow beneath her — Jess Walter

Other women were like presents he was constantly disappointed in unwrapping — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

Always speak first to the toughest person in the room. — Jess Walter

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon. — Jess Walter

We want what we want - we love who we love. — Jess Walter

You can't just say that, Pasquale. Those words have tremendous power. It's how people end up married. — Jess Walter

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment. — Jess Walter

I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years. — Jess Walter

Being alive isn't the same thing as living — Jess Walter

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter

He was ready to stop trying to matter; he was ready to simply live. — Jess Walter

And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exacting part, the action? It's all so fast. — Jess Walter

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent. — Jess Walter

Each gray hair still seemed like a weevil in a flower bed. — Jess Walter

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories. — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

Make them want to give you the thing you're taking. — Jess Walter

What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead? — Jess Walter

God, this life is a cold, brittle thing. And yet it's all there is. — Jess Walter

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events. — Jess Walter

It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that desire. — Jess Walter

True sacrifice is painless. — Jess Walter

You can always spot the real thing, that affection; why does it always come from the wrong person? — Jess Walter

Be confident and the world responds to your confidence, rewards your faith. — Jess Walter

She saw death as just another wedding she wasn't invited to. — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

There was nothing explicit between them, nothing more than that slightly open door. And yet . . . what could be more alluring? In — Jess Walter

My poems ... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes. — Jess Walter

With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way. — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view. — Jess Walter

(If I looked like you, Debra, I'd masturbate all the time — Jess Walter

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination. — Jess Walter

Sometimes it was like a deep ache, the simple act of breathing in and out. — Jess Walter

Something about the memory caused him to tear up, to think again about the unknowable nature of the people we love. — Jess Walter

Before Pat could speak, the kid — Jess Walter

My dad worked for 40 years in an aluminum plant. I don't think he ever got aluminum block. — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

No one gets to tell you what your life means! — Jess Walter

There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors. — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

Oh, the things she would say if she could--but it's a minefield of courtesies and manners, this dying business. — Jess Walter

This is what happens when your life is authored not by God, but by David Mamet. — Jess Walter

Ideas are sphincters. Every asshole has one. — Jess Walter

Stories are nations, empires. — Jess Walter

fierce tonight. Insistent. — Jess Walter

Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it. — Jess Walter

...life was a glorious catastrophe. — Jess Walter

All we have is the story we tell. — Jess Walter

as if ye have faith and it shall be given to you. — Jess Walter

The form is so malleable and can do so many things. — Jess Walter

If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet — Jess Walter

The water. The feral cats scattered before her. — Jess Walter

All art is personal. Otherwise, what's the point? — Jess Walter

What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? — Jess Walter

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. — Jess Walter

Here for business or pleasure, Mr. Wheeler?"
"Redemption," Shane says. — Jess Walter

(Agent: This book doesn't work. Shane: You mean, in your opinion. Agent: I mean in English). — Jess Walter

There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there. — Jess Walter

You had to write it, and he had to play it, and I'm just so grateful I got to see it. — Jess Walter