Walter Kirn said this quote

“ To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge. ”

Famous Quotes of Walter Kirn

Famous quotes of Walter Kirn from the classy quote

See all

My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.

~ Walter Kirn

Walter Kirn New York City Writing

@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

~ Walter Kirn

Walter Kirn 2011 Robert L Baird Twitter Vanity Writing

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

~ Walter Kirn

Walter Kirn 2011 2011 Tuscon Shooting Blame Game Emanuel Bronner Jared Lee Loughner Noam Chomsky Politics Presumption Spiderman Taylor Swift Twitter

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

~ Walter Kirn

Walter Kirn 2011 2011 Tuscon Shooting Enemies Friends Partisanship Politics Twitter