294 Quotes by Jeannette Walls

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour,” she’d ask us, “when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

We’re stronger than we realize.

Life’s too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are.

Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you’ve actually changed their life in some way.

I’m a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I’m a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

What I do know is that wondering why you survived don’t help you survive.

Ironing was a particularly galling waste of time. You’d spend twenty minutes pressing one shirt front and back, spraying starch and getting the creases sharp, but once the man of the house put it on, it would wrinkle as soon as he bent an elbow; plus, you couldn’t even see whether the danged shirt was ironed or not under his suit coat.

Anyone who thinks he’s too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito.