Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain coffee shop, or stared obsessively at an old picture; who hasn't toiled over every word in a letter, taken four hours to write a two-sentence email, watched the phone praying it will ring; who doesn't lay awake at night sick with the image of her sleeping with someone else?
I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab… - Jess Walter
I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab…
- Jess Walter
I think so, too. I know I felt that way. For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. B… - Jess Walter
I think so, too. I know I felt that way. For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. B…
I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had… - Jess Walter
I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had…
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. - Jess Walter
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.
A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You h… - Jess Walter
A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You h…
I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction. - Jess Walter
I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.
Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story ... your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our sto… - Jess Walter
Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story ... your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our sto…
There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of… - Jess Walter
There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of…
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment. - Jess Walter
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
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