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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- Jess Walter

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier y…

- Jess Walter

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

- Jess Walter

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

- Jess Walter