“For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are, you wish you could not do them. For most of us it's "I cannot get off Facebook." But imagine that your demon has you living on the street. I don't think those compulsions and obsessions are that different.” PeopleThinkingDifferentWishSportsMy OwnImagineStreetsTvsBattleObsessionDemonImagine ThatCompulsionWish YouLiving On Author:Jess Walter
“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.” PeopleWritingFoundFunDrugBehaviorDecidedClubsAggressiveZombie 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
“Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.” PeopleSaidTwoImportantTogetherCoupleConversationImportant ThingsGaps Author:Jess Walter
“Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story ... your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for a while, we're less alone.” PeopleIfsSometimesStoriesFatherLucky Author:Jess Walter
“I think so, too. I know I felt that way. For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayLifeYearsRealEndsCharacterActionFeltWaitingRealizingForeverHappenedMinutes Book:Beautiful Ruins Source: Beautiful Ruins
“He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.” PeopleImaginationSimpleVisionInfiniteShame Author:Jess Walter
“He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.” PeopleFoundEmptyBoredomContentment Book:Beautiful Ruins: A Novel Source: Beautiful Ruins: A Novel
