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Top 25 Jack Ketchum Quotes (2025 Update)

Jack Ketchum Quote: “Thinking about writing isn’t writing. Planning to write isn’t writing. Neither is talking about it, posting about it, or complaining how hard it is. These may be part of the process. But only writing is writing.”

1. “Thinking about writing isn’t writing. Planning to write isn’t writing. Neither is talking about it, posting about it, or complaining how hard it is. These may be part of the process. But only writing is writing.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction. And I learned that they can taste like winning.”

2. “In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction. And I learned that they can taste like winning.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “The dead are home before us, daddy, she said. But we have work to do.”

3. “The dead are home before us, daddy, she said. But we have work to do.”

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Jack Ketchum Quote: “Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.”

4. “Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.”

5. “As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.”

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Jack Ketchum Quote: “I know we all are lonely. Locked off from one another in some fundamental secrecy. But some of us declare war and some of us don’t.”

6. “I know we all are lonely. Locked off from one another in some fundamental secrecy. But some of us declare war and some of us don’t.”

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Jack Ketchum Quote: “You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?” – Tom Waits.”

7. “You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?” – Tom Waits.”

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Jack Ketchum Quote: “People were complex creatures, walking, talking rag quilts, youthful dreams and hopes and fears and middle-aged indiscretions, aging aches and pains and losses, the whole damn kit and kaboodle, mended here and tattered there. People were pushed and pulled in all sorts of directions and did whatever it was they had to do for balance.”

8. “People were complex creatures, walking, talking rag quilts, youthful dreams and hopes and fears and middle-aged indiscretions, aging aches and pains and losses, the whole damn kit and kaboodle, mended here and tattered there. People were pushed and pulled in all sorts of directions and did whatever it was they had to do for balance.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “Someone once said to me that if you want to make God laugh, just tell him your plans. Just tell him who you are.”

9. “Someone once said to me that if you want to make God laugh, just tell him your plans. Just tell him who you are.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “You tell me why’s a man’s blood is any better or any more precious than a dog’s blood? It sure ain’t to the dog.”

10. “You tell me why’s a man’s blood is any better or any more precious than a dog’s blood? It sure ain’t to the dog.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “The trick of functioning with grief is that of remembering and forgetting all at once. Of letting the ghost walk at your side but not block the way.”

11. “The trick of functioning with grief is that of remembering and forgetting all at once. Of letting the ghost walk at your side but not block the way.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “I lay in bed and thought about how easy it was to hurt a person. It didn’t have to be physical. All you had to do was take a good hard kick at something they cared about.”

12. “I lay in bed and thought about how easy it was to hurt a person. It didn’t have to be physical. All you had to do was take a good hard kick at something they cared about.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.”

13. “Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “I see Donny turning to throw the words over his shoulder on his way across the lawn to the porch. Casually, but with an odd sort of sincerity about him, as though this were absolute gospel. “My mom says Meg’s the lucky one,” he said. “My mom says she got off easy.”

14. “I see Donny turning to throw the words over his shoulder on his way across the lawn to the porch. Casually, but with an odd sort of sincerity about him, as though this were absolute gospel. “My mom says Meg’s the lucky one,” he said. “My mom says she got off easy.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “It was a time when even the guilty displayed a rare innocence. In.”

15. “It was a time when even the guilty displayed a rare innocence. In.”

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Jack Ketchum Quote: “To her eyes, used to diversity, there was a troubling uniformity about them all, something that spoke of isolation, and a dull and thoughtless cruelty.”

16. “To her eyes, used to diversity, there was a troubling uniformity about them all, something that spoke of isolation, and a dull and thoughtless cruelty.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “Bad enough I’m a goddamn burden to myself.”

17. “Bad enough I’m a goddamn burden to myself.”

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Jack Ketchum Quote: “I have always felt a fundamental core of loneliness in me. Perhaps it comes from being an only child. Perhaps it’s my grandfather’s sullen thick German blood. I have been alone with my wife and alone with my children, untouchable, unreachable, and I suspect that most of the time they haven’t known. It runs deep, this aloneness. I have accommodated it. It informs all my relationships and all my expectations. It makes me almost impossible to surprise by life’s grimmer turns of fate.”

18. “I have always felt a fundamental core of loneliness in me. Perhaps it comes from being an only child. Perhaps it’s my grandfather’s sullen thick German blood. I have been alone with my wife and alone with my children, untouchable, unreachable, and I suspect that most of the time they haven’t known. It runs deep, this aloneness. I have accommodated it. It informs all my relationships and all my expectations. It makes me almost impossible to surprise by life’s grimmer turns of fate.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “He was a good man and a kind man but he never knew what he wanted. I think that eventually it killed him.”

19. “He was a good man and a kind man but he never knew what he wanted. I think that eventually it killed him.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “A tired life breeds tired decisions, sometimes none at all.”

20. “A tired life breeds tired decisions, sometimes none at all.”

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Jack Ketchum Quote: “Bar life is about as democratic as we get.”

21. “Bar life is about as democratic as we get.”

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Jack Ketchum Quote: “The life he’d known now seemed capable of multiple, even infinite shatterings.”

22. “The life he’d known now seemed capable of multiple, even infinite shatterings.”

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Jack Ketchum Quote: “What a terrible time to find out how good life can be, I thought. And how good to find out anyway.”

23. “What a terrible time to find out how good life can be, I thought. And how good to find out anyway.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “There were so many hidden realities in the world, so many secret lives. It seemed like nobody lived just one.”

24. “There were so many hidden realities in the world, so many secret lives. It seemed like nobody lived just one.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “It’s a cold, stark emptiness that has no laughter in it. No compassion, and no mercy. It’s feral. Like the eyes of a hunting animal.”

25. “It’s a cold, stark emptiness that has no laughter in it. No compassion, and no mercy. It’s feral. Like the eyes of a hunting animal.”

— Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum Quote: “She had always given too much of her life over to relationships, and they’d never quite worked out. Now she was simplifying her life in favor of her career. It gave her a sense of control to watch herself succeeding, and a great deal of satisfaction.”

26. “She had always given too much of her life over to relationships, and they’d never quite worked out. Now she was simplifying her life in favor of her career. It gave her a sense of control to watch herself succeeding, and a great deal of satisfaction.”

— Jack Ketchum

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