Philipp Meyer Quotes

She knew why the Colonel had hated talking about the old days. Because the moment you looked back, and began to make your tally, you were done for. — Philipp Meyer

What we need is another great ice to come and sweep us all into the ocean. To give God a second chance. — Philipp Meyer

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them. — Philipp Meyer

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live. — Philipp Meyer

Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing. — Philipp Meyer

The strong took from the weak, only the weak believed otherwise. — Philipp Meyer

I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West. — Philipp Meyer

I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts. — Philipp Meyer

My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Even when I dropped out of high school, they said, 'We trust you, we believe in you.' — Philipp Meyer

I can hear the Colonel - no land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth - but it does not make me feel any better. — Philipp Meyer

Only bullets and walls make for honest neighbors. — Philipp Meyer

They could not seem to grasp that what mattered was what you did. Not what you said or thought about. — Philipp Meyer

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen. — Philipp Meyer

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better. — Philipp Meyer

I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket. — Philipp Meyer

I had never known there were so many people on earth. — Philipp Meyer

I try to begin writing as close to a dreamlike state as I can get. — Philipp Meyer

People like him think you can apologize things away, that you can confess over and over until you are free to repeat your crime. — Philipp Meyer

Everyone loves the underdog. Until they have to take his side. — Philipp Meyer

My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact. — Philipp Meyer

Of course you wanted your children to have it better than you had. But at what point was it not better at all? — Philipp Meyer

Perhaps another great ice will come and grind all this into dust. Leaving no trace of our existence, as even fire does. — Philipp Meyer

When is the army getting here?" "Never," he said. "Well . . . One riot, one Ranger." "Sure. Unless you're the one Ranger. — Philipp Meyer

It had been a turning point in her life, in some sense it's most important moment; she had seen the world and retreated. — Philipp Meyer

My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that. — Philipp Meyer

If you hate me it is because I have morals. — Philipp Meyer

Cornell changed my life; getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments. — Philipp Meyer

This is what it means to get old, you don't look forward to pleasure so much as easing pain. — Philipp Meyer

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

On a horse he still looks like a young man; on the ground he carries the weight of all his years. — Philipp Meyer

If a man has done it, so can you: that is what our father used to tell us. — Philipp Meyer

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good? — Philipp Meyer

could not be expected to part with them. — Philipp Meyer

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth. — Philipp Meyer

Follow your footprints long enough and they will turn into those of a beast. — Philipp Meyer

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are. — Philipp Meyer

All the things you needed to know in life - you didn't learn them until you'd already made your decisions. — Philipp Meyer

When you take the fact that you're loved for granted, it frees your mind to go after every other thing there is. — Philipp Meyer

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

Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout. — Philipp Meyer

resacas have all gone dry. The entire earth, it seems, is being slowly transformed into — Philipp Meyer