182 Quotes by Jess Walter

It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that desire.

Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.

Weren't movies his generation's faith anyway--its true religion? Wasn't the theater our temple, the one place we enter separately but emerge from two hours later together, with the same experience, same guided emotions, same moral?...what was that but a religion?

Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for a while, we're less alone.

Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.

...the scramble to get higher, to be seen, the cycle of creation and rebellion, everyone assuming they were saying something new or doing something new, something profound--when the truth was tat it had all been done a million billion times.

My dreams tend to be either so obscure as to seem random, or so obviously connected to my subconscious that it's embarrassing- as if even my hidden depths lack depth.

No one gets to tell you what your life means!

What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?