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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.

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Jess Walter
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 20
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Spokane
Washington
Since
Power
Think
Thinking
Nineteen
Life
Fatherhood
Dad
Sacrifice

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If you come from money and you become an addict, you go to the Betty Ford Clinic, you get treatment. If you're living on the street and you're an addict, it's much harder to find your way out.
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Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through.
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And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.
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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.
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What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?
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No one gets to tell you what your life means!
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I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'
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He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.
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At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?
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I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.
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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.
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If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.
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I'm certainly eclectic in my writing.
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Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
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He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.
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