209 Quotes by Garth Risk Hallberg

I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.

I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.

Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.

I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.

I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.

A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.

When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.

When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.