209 Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they’re not around other people.

Actual artists are like mythological creatures,′ she heard herself opine. ‘You hear about them, but a sighting’s pretty rare.

No need to look to see if your former home has vanished yet into the humdrum gray behind you; you’ll be able to feel it, the sudden eclipse of the tractor beam the house puts out. Of its forcefield of sadness.

You’re hung up on something that’s never going to love you back.

Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.

Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.

I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book - you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.