Walter Kirn Quotes
I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
Quotes to Explore
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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I'll be honest, I like everything about my body.
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Oh of course it pleased me, it pleased me greatly. But I also felt as if my body had the consistency of egg shell, and a slight pressure on my arm, on my forehead, on my stomach would be enough to break it and dig out all my secrets, in particular those which were secrets even to me.
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The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
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When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
