I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don't think writing TV has. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
If I have a writing problem, the minute I step away, there's a solution. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I think we writers are very superstitious. We don't know why it's working when it's working, so we attach cause and effect. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Before I write, I like to read obits in 'The Times' because they're well written, and I like the little details. It… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
True crime has long been a passion for me, but I'm also a sucker for biographies, particularly of politicians, writers, or Hollywood… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
The speed of the TV stuff vs. the self-imposed pace of novel writing has been a big adjustment, and going back and… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
In the world of book writing, there's a few people, maybe, where you have close relationships. In TV, there are so many… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I am an insomniac. I wake up at 6 or 6:30 and get out of bed immediately. The coffee starts right away.… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years,… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“She said I'd better not make her unhappy because I oughta know that she's never unhappy alone.” — Megan Abbott Copy Share
Reading Dorothy B. Hughes's novel 'In a Lonely Place' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an enormous puzzle.… — Megan Abbott Copy Share
“Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness.” — Megan Abbott Copy Share
I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression. — Megan Abbott Copy Share
I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless. — Megan Abbott Copy Share
“But she became Gabby’s friend in that way that can happen, because the girl with the cool boots always finds the girl with the… — Megan Abbott Copy Share
“Where’d that world go, that world when you’re a kid, and now I can’t remember noticing anything, not the smell of the leaves or… — Megan Abbott Copy Share
“This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills and a… — megan abbott Copy Share
The speed of the TV stuff vs. the self-imposed pace of novel writing has been a big adjustment, and going back and forth often… — Megan Abbott Copy Share
“We’re all the same under our skin, aren’t we? We’re all wanting things we don’t understand. Things we can’t even name. The yearning so… — Megan Abbott Copy Share
The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine… — Megan Abbott Copy Share
“Here he is, the man who knows things and who should want to help me. But it is so hard to bring up things… — Megan Abbott Copy Share
