Top 36 Quotes by Jess Walter

About Jess Walter

These are some quotes by American author Jess Walter Author, who was born on July 20, 1965.

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

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

Jess Walter

I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.

Jess Walter

I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: 'It was late in the fall and the trees lining our driveway had turned red like a row of burning matches.'

I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: 'It was late in the fall and the trees lining our driveway had turned red like a row of burning matches.'

Jess Walter

With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way.

With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way.

Jess Walter

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

Jess Walter

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

Jess Walter

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