Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Wallsis an American writer 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, which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth21 April 1960
CityPhoenix, AZ
CountryUnited States of America
sunrise care attention
I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.
hate acceptance worst-enemy
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.
summer light each-day
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
pieces world paper
In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.
sunrise earth want
If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.
hands play different
God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
dad school kids
...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.
perfect people secret
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.
morning horse rocks
Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.
stronger realizing
We're stronger than we realize.
spiritual book important
I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
morning writing desks
I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
advice way figures
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.
dad space purpose
Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.