“I didn't have indoor plumbing. I'd go to school dirty. I didn't have l...” — Jeannette Walls Quote

“I didn't have indoor plumbing. I'd go to school dirty. I didn't have lunches.”

“During recess at school, I'd slip back into the classroom and find something in some other kid's lunch bag that wouldn't be missed - a package of crackers, an apple - and I'd gulp it down so quickly I would barely be able to taste it.”

“Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.”

“Comics are primal, down and dirty.”

“I was influenced by American movies of the '60s and '70s, especially Don Siegel's 'Dirty Harry' and the films of Sam Peckinpah. And, of course, a lot of the film noir movies of the '40s.”

“I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands dirty, is a respectable, necessary thing. But I wanted to write - and writing didn't qualify. Whenever I told my parents I dreamed of becoming a writer, they said, 'Great, but what are you going to do for work?'”