Josh Malerman Quotes

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!

I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.

Everyone wants to relive their life once again, but if I had the chance, I would do it in the exact same fashion.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party.

If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I'm not perfect. This is how I was raised. If I wasn't in the industry, I'd be the same person.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.

I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.