Quotes from Jeannette Walls

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!

I feel like 'Alice Through the Looking Glass.'

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

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

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

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.

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.

My life is not just about the past.

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.

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

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

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

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.

You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

Kids are smarter than you realize.

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.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.