Joe Meno
Joe Meno
Joe Menois a novelist, writer of short fiction, playwright, and music journalist based in Chicago...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
believe goes-on bad-things
Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.
mistake fall boys
The boy detective thinks, The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. He reasons, But there is wonder in the attempt, knowing we are all destined to fall short, but forgoing reason and fear time and time again so deliberately.
people feels
Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.
prayer quiet cry
When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.
book writing opportunity
The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from television or film because they ask you to finish the project. You have to be actively engaged to read a book. It's more like a blueprint. What it really is, is an opportunity... A book is a place where you're forced to use your imagination. I find it disappointing that you're not being asked to imagine more.
sex character writing
I always feel super uncomfortable when it's like ah, there probably has to be a sex scene. I feel really bad and then always look around to see if anyone is watching me while I'm writing. I want to apologize to people who have to read those sex scenes, but I feel like it's part of the characters life, it's important.
past cities glitter
The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.
evil wonder acts-of-evil
An act of evil is the death of wonder
moving heart dark
It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.
important impossible important-things
The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.
brave humans human-beings
The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.
real confused love-is
Do not be confused by what the natural world knows: We are all, in our own way, completely and totally alone. If love is real, it is complete and total failing of the intellect. It is utter self-destruction. It is pandemonium.
our-world way wells
Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.
evil world
The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.