The neighborhoods I grew up in were poor and full of drug users. I don't think you have to look that hard to find those kinds of lives. But I also don't think you have to have experienced it really close to be able to empathize.
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.
- 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
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…
His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about. - Jess Walter
His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.
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 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…
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.
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.
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 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…
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