When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don’t normally use hi-falutin’ language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus. Philipp Meyer Read Quote
I couldn’t understand what was important about school. Dropping out was the first adult decision I made. If I ever have kids, I would hate for them to drop out. But I wasn’t a rebel. I never cared to be against school. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do. Philipp Meyer Read Quote
I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide – that was what my parents couldn’t pry away from me; that was the blanket. Philipp Meyer Read Quote
Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better. Philipp Meyer Read Quote
When you take the fact that you’re loved for granted, it frees your mind to go after every other thing there is. Philipp Meyer Read Quote
Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze freely, they essentially destroyed the prairie. Philipp Meyer Read Quote
When you look at ‘Grapes of Wrath,’ the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at the reader. The book’s real power comes from its slower, broader movement. Philipp Meyer Read Quote
