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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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  Simple, Imagination, People

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• Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you.

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  Insane, Looks, Answers

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• I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

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  Events, Newspapers, Currents

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• Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through.

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  Thinking, Inspire, Novelists

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

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  Self, Promotion, Self Promotion

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• I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.

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  Silly, Writing, Thinking

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• I think suspense should be like any other color on a writers palette. I suppose Im in the minority but I think its crazy for literary fiction to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.

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  Crazy, Ghetto, Divorce

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• The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

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  Thinking, Stories, Pops

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

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  Teaching, Humble, Opportunity

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• I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

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  Block, Coffee, Writing

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• Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

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  Imagination

  Jess Walter (2012). “Beautiful Ruins: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• You probably have to trust that your work is following certain themes and certain movements, but then the rest is a kind of piecing together so that the whole becomes larger than the parts.

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  Together, Movement, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You have to do disappointment twice.

  Jess Walter

  Disappointment

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• This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

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  Life, Dream, Sleep

  "Beautiful Ruins". Book by Jess Walter, www.glamour.com. 2012.

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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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  Father, Wife, Kind

  Jess Walter (2012). “Beautiful Ruins: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them manila boomerangs. I'd seal the self-addressed stamped envelope inside an envelope and I'd mail it off, and it would come back six weeks later with a rejection letter in it.

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  Self, Years, Rejection

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is.

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  Home, Track, Worry

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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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  Regret, Thinking, Dexterity

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• No one gets to tell you what your life means!

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  Mean, Life Means

  Jess Walter (2013). “Beautiful Ruins”, p.237, Penguin UK

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• I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

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  Writing, Writing Stories, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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  Feelings, Perception, Shadow

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• I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.

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  Basketball, Morning, Coffee

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• I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers.

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  Book, Thinking, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love humor in writing, so I've written to the thing that's funny, there's the joke, but then I just kept going. I started thinking about all the bikes I've had stolen, and that got me thinking about crime, and that got me thinking about the city I'm in.

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  Writing, Thinking, Cities

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the way in; it's the door; and then what's behind it is always some kind of people, which I think probably makes me more in the tradition of realistic fiction because that's usually what I'm interested in, the people.

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  Thinking, Doors, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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