My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

Next quotes

• Walter Kirn:

  According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so b

• Walter Kirn:

  I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to decei

• Walter Kirn:

  The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their

• Walter Kirn:

  In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touc

• Walter Kirn:

  I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, al

• Walter Kirn:

  To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with

• Walter Kirn:

  The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often p

• Walter Kirn:

  Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers h

• Walter Kirn:

  On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't

• Walter Kirn:

  There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character,