“The neighborhoods I grew up in were poor and full of drug users. I don't think you have to look that hard to find those kinds of lives. But I also don't think you have to have experienced it really close to be able to empathize.” ThinkingLooksKindHardAblePoorGrewDrugGrew UpNeighborhoodUsers Author:Jess Walter
“It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the way in; it's the door; and then what's behind it is always some kind of people, which I think probably makes me more in the tradition of realistic fiction because that's usually what I'm interested in, the people.” PeopleThinkingWayKindImportantStoriesBehindsFictionDoorsTraditionInventionRealisticFormalRealistic Fiction Author:Jess Walter
“You probably have to trust that your work is following certain themes and certain movements, but then the rest is a kind of piecing together so that the whole becomes larger than the parts.” KindWholeTogetherCertainMovementFollowingTheme Author:Jess Walter
“What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?” IfsKindFatherLeftWife Book:Beautiful Ruins: A Novel Source: Beautiful Ruins: A Novel