Jess Walter Quotes

You have to do disappointment twice.

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

I'm certainly eclectic in my writing.

I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think its crazy for literary fiction to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.

I quickly decided my zombies weren't really zombies. It was instead something you called people who were on this club drug, who then exhibited aggressive behaviors. And then like everyone who writes about zombies, I found it was so much fun.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!