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Jess Walter Quotes

American - Author | July 20, 1965 -

I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.

Time Myself Yourself Me Think

My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well.

Poetry Me I Can Say Write Well

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

Start Become Out Jokes Things Big

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

Newspaper Events Current Events Come

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

Done Try Need Reason Something Fact

I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

Coffee Grace Writing Story Short

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

First Years Out Fiction Seven Made

Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist with more than 600 pages to go sounds audacious, it's nothing compared with the literary feats Murray pulls off in this hilarious, moving and wise book.

Wise Moving Book New Page Nothing

Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.

Day Writing World Loved Political

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

Writing Important Act Writer Than

I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.

Work Funny Step Support Important

I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.

Great People Think You Jazz Become

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