Jess Walter Quotes

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.

Jess Walter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WiseMovingBookNewPageNothing

The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

Jimmy Nail

FameFortuneWholeAddictiveThing

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

John Adams

PowerGreatSoulBeyondWeakAlways

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

Jenny Agutter

GoodTheatreStartBelieveReading

For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.

John Grant

LifeFearPeopleMeThinkProcess

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.

John Hawkes

HelpYouProfessionalForgetNever

God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.

Tony Evans

GodAuthorityCulturesDifferentHe

We must transform the relationship between police and the communities they serve.

Tom Steyer

RelationshipPoliceServeTransform

I care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation.

Roger Zelazny

TransformationThinkCareMoreState

I love my job. And I get to work with cool people.

Romany Malco

WorkLoveJobPeopleCoolGet

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Michel de Montaigne

FearPassionContagious

Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

Michael Mullen

LifeSomeoneRunWillTrySingle

I am very optimistic, and I always think positive, but within reason and never getting too far ahead of the game.

Luis Fonsi

PositiveI AmGameThinkAheadFar

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