Megan Abbott

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.

— Megan Abbott

“I think she might cry. In her way, she is.”

— Megan Abbott

“I figured I'd duck out…before Goody Osbourne took the stand.”

— Megan Abbott

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

— Megan Abbott

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

— Megan Abbott

I'm always fascinated by how different writers' rooms work.

— Megan Abbott

“Things can get pretty rough out there," he says. "Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you?…

— Megan Abbott

“People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't…

— Megan Abbott

“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…

— Megan Abbott

“If you didn't feel it on your body long after he'd left, was it really worth laying for him? I wanted to…

— Megan Abbott

“A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement.”

— Megan Abbott

“If we look at it from eye corners, or from places other than the center of our head, isn’t there a kind…

— Megan Abbott

I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.

— Megan Abbott

I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless.

— Megan Abbott

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

“Because she was solid gold, fourteen-carat, barely burnished despite twenty years of hard molling. But beneath it, I knew, beneath that gold…

— Megan Abbott

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like…

— Megan Abbott

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

“The things you want, you never get them. And if you do, they're not what you thought they'd be. But you'd still…

— Megan Abbott

Reading Dorothy B. Hughes's novel 'In a Lonely Place' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an…

— Megan Abbott

“Running so hard, her breath stippled with pain to go faster, hit the grass harder, move forward faster, like she could break…

— Megan Abbott

Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only…

— Megan Abbott

“He’d tried to explain it to her, how accidents happen but we really are safe. But there was, already, the sense that…

— Megan Abbott

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

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

“You have to decide who you are, little girl, she told me once. Once you know that, everyone else will too.”

— Megan Abbott

There's this notion of women's bodies being out of control - so out of control that men don't understand it at all.

— Megan Abbott

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

“When you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control it all.”

— Megan Abbott

“I have another friend who gets what I’m really like, and I get her. She scares me. Did you ever see yourself…

— Megan Abbott

I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.

— Megan Abbott

“Then she said sometimes the ways boys need things so badly, like they could never stop needing, it almost scared her.”

— Megan Abbott