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Jess Walter Quotes

American - Author | July 20, 1965 -

My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.

Poetry Step Writing Trying Write

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

Love Time Poetry Me Criticism Play

I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.

Car Story Think Meetings Problem

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.

Time People Building Book Thinking

I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years.

Hollywood Years Been Drawn Repelled

With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way.

Way Little Own Facebook Our Twitter

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

Think Irony Would Idea I Think Were

The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn out in the end to have created more terrorists.

War End Done More Turn Out

I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

Learning Opportunity Humble Culture

I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitation of celebrity. With Facebook, we choose a photo that is not too good a photo - we're more arch than that. We're our own celebrity publicists. We understand it so innately.

Good Live Think Feel Choose Become

There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

Time Authors Considered

There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.

Art People Understand Some People

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