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I'm certainly eclectic in my writing.

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Jess Walter
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 20
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Journalist
Novelist
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Spokane
Washington
Eclectic
Certainly
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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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I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.
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The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write.
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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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There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.
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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.
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I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.
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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.
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What business does memory have with time?
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And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?
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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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Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
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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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All we have is the story we tell.
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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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And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, Yes.
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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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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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A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.
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He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
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