Jess Walter Quotes

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

Jess Walter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 20, 1965

Topics

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There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

Jimmy Rushing

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Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

John Belushi

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I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.

John Kruk

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Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted 'Simpsons' fan quoting their favorite line.

Matt Groening

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The 'Missa Mirabilis' is a big work which was conceived for a large organ and a lot of singers.

Stephen Hough

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I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

Michelle Branch

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I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

Lorrie Moore

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The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Dorothea Brande

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I feel like since I was 27, I was calling myself 30. And then, when it happened, it was like, 'I'm finally here now. This is it.

Autre Ne Veut

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For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn't be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It's a surprise to me that this hasn't happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Alice Munro

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We are all beautiful.

Philomena Kwao

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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

Penelope Lively

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