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 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

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

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

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

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

- Jess Walter

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

- Jess Walter