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Walter Kirn Quotes
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you’re the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
I say ‘here’s the thing’ a lot, both to alert people that I’m about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
My mother used to push ‘Wuthering Heights’ on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn’t be honest all along. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don’t know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
We’re on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we’re toggling between them. That’s just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
I still believe in love. I always will. It’s my blessing and my burden. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they’re everywhere. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn’t been until quite recently that it’s been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet (Walter Kirn Quotes)
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too (Walter Kirn Quotes)
I preferred that my bad dreams be vague (Walter Kirn Quotes)
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn’t an aspiration of mine. (Walter Kirn Quotes)
The market is the only critic that matters (Walter Kirn Quotes)
The best critic needn’t be right, just interesting (Walter Kirn Quotes)
The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them (Walter Kirn Quotes)
Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying (Walter Kirn Quotes)
Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes (Walter Kirn Quotes)
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can’t bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends? (Walter Kirn Quotes)
Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn’t be honest all along (Walter Kirn Quotes)
Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you’re not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice (Walter Kirn Quotes)
I still believe in love. I always will. It’s my blessing and my burden (Walter Kirn Quotes)
Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough (Walter Kirn Quotes)
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it’s someone else’s witch being hunted (Walter Kirn Quotes)
A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too (Walter Kirn Quotes)
In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth (Walter Kirn Quotes)