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About Jeannette Walls
American author and journalist
Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist, best known for her memoir The Glass Castle and for her work as a former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com. She has 95 quotes on the site. The Glass Castle, published in 2005, recounts the unsettled, nomadic childhood she wrote about in memoir form. Walls has also been recognized with the Alex Award and the Christopher Award in 2006, and her writing is closely associated with personal narrative and family memory.
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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.”Jeannette Walls
- “Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a…”Jeannette Walls
- “In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.”Jeannette Walls
- “I had the big shoulders; I had the big hair. I loved the '80s. It was all about power women.”Jeannette Walls
Explore Horses
- “You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a stor…”Jennifer Echols
- “I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have…”Tommy Lee Jones
- “It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little mic…”John Phillips
Explore Animals
- “If you're going to make a lot of films about a particular group of animals, you might as well pick one that's…”Mike deGruy
- “What a wonderful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we…”David Levithan
- “We're all animals, but we're a different sort of animal. Maybe they're better than us. They're more loyal. Th…”Kevin Kline
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Books by Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle
2006
Half broke horses
2009
The silver star
2013
Dish
2000