Top 148 Quotes & Sayings by Jeannette Walls

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood. Published in 2005, it had been on the New York Times Best Seller list for 421 weeks as of June 3, 2018. She is a 2006 recipient of the Alex Awards and Christopher Award.

American - Writer | Born: April 21, 1960

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I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

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Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

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

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I feel like 'Alice Through the Looking Glass.'

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Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

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Taking care of myself is central to my personality. I'm pathologically independent. There's no doubt that's one reason I never had children.

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I love Woody Harrelson. He's a fine actor.

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We all have our baggage, and I think the trick is not resisting it but accepting it, understanding that the worst experience has a valuable gift wrapped inside if you're willing to receive it.

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I had the big shoulders; I had the big hair. I loved the '80s. It was all about power women.

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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.

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Kids are smarter than you realize.

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Once I became the editor of the school newspaper, I had a key to the school, and I went to the school cafeteria and just took the food they threw away.

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My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

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I still dream about 'New York' mag. It's kind of weird. I dream I'm part-time, and they can't find a full-time job for me. It's usually that I can't find a lead, and I call all my great sources and say, 'Can you help me out?'

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My father, Rex, was one of the most charismatic human beings I've ever known, and also one of the most brilliant.

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When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

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I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

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I was like, 'I'll take out garbage or do whatever it takes just to work at 'New York Magazine.' My god! I'd do anything!

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I liked movers and shakers more than celebrities. I wasn't that interested in celebrities. I grew up without a TV.

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I was never really a party person.

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When I was first getting out of college, Mom said, 'You ought to become a squatter.' I'm like, 'Forget it!'

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Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

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I was going to some fabulous party, and my taxi got stuck in traffic, and I looked out the window, and I saw a homeless woman rooting through the garbage, and I realized it was my mother. And I was so mortified that I ducked down, and I hid.

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One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.

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We're stronger than we realize.

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I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.

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I didn't have indoor plumbing. I'd go to school dirty. I didn't have lunches.

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I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

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I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.

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I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple.

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Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

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I loved 'Casablanca.' You know, right vs. wrong. I think I like a movie where there is a victory, right over wrong, but there's always some price to be paid.

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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.

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I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.

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Everything in life is gray, you know.

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I didn't want to be the daughter of the crazy people.

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I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

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I never thought 'The Glass Castle' would be a movie. It's just too complicated.

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And as soon as the Internet hit and people started having their own web sites, I realized that people who did what I did, our positions were being threatened because, as journalists, we were the conduits between the celebrities and the public.

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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

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My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

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My life is not just about the past.

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During recess at school, I'd slip back into the classroom and find something in some other kid's lunch bag that wouldn't be missed - a package of crackers, an apple - and I'd gulp it down so quickly I would barely be able to taste it.

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So many people ask, 'How could you forgive your mother for the way you were raised?' It's really not forgiveness, in my opinion. It's acceptance. She's never going to be the sort of mother who wants to take care of me.

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I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.

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With a complicated childhood, you can either focus on the positive or the negative, and I chose to focus on the positive.

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One of the blessings of my childhood was being a fighter and a scrapper, but being a fighter and a scrapper is a curse, too.

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I have a joyful life, and I attribute that to both of my parents.

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What's wrong with social climbing? What's wrong with trying to improve your lot in life? And if you do, what happens if your family doesn't? Is that betraying your roots? Are you being dishonest? I had a really good job, and it paid really well. Am I supposed to quit it out of loyalty to my parents?

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Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

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Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

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Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

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You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

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Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

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Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

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

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One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

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

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I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

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You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

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Top 148 Quotes & Sayings by Jeannette Walls

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