Jeannette Walls Quotes

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.

Jeannette Walls

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 21, 1960

Topics

WritingVoiceSomeoneFindingYou

I'm not going to be the guy who sold the last CD.

Jimmy Iovine

GuyGoingLastWhoSoldCD

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

Shimon Peres

LifeThoughtMy LifeWhyWaySame

When I look at my own career, growing up, I was doing really well at age 11, but it was kind of isolating because back then, people weren't hanging out with me. My mom was always there. She had my back and was like, 'You keep focused. You gotta keep focused.' And I think those kinds of lessons were hard.

Michelle Kwan

AgePeopleMeMomGrowing UpThink

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

Michelle Pfeiffer

HopeBestMoneyParentsHusbandKid

My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

Jason Babin

SuccessEffortMeTeamTeammatesUp

For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions and ideas. The reader just might be the most powerful tool in a writer's arsenal.

Jonathan Evison

ExperienceMeIdeasPowerfulTool

I pay parking tickets. You know, you can try to give 50%, but then they charge you all those penalties! Seriously, I have gotten many, many, many tickets in my life.

Debra Messing

LifeMy LifeYouKnowSeriouslyTry

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

Dean Koontz

SocietyThinkViolenceFindMoral

First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.

Bobby Hull

PoliceGameDoingHelpBackDone

I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.

Pharrell Williams

I AmDoneRealizeBecauseAmbitious

It depends on whom I'm with. Sometimes I start out in my own voice, and no matter who I'm with, I take on their thing.

Peter Sellers

StartVoiceSometimesMatterMy Own

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

Tyler Hamilton

TruthLieBetterFeelTellOnce

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