“But maybe I’d need something to read on my ride to my future, I thought. I could borrow a few of the… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
You know that's why people don't like unlikeable characters. It's not that they're not interesting. Everybody knows the most interesting character in… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I want to say that what is cool about writing self-aware first person narrative is that the awareness is not necessarily the… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I don't remember reading much at all during the writing of Eileen. I go through several years-long dry spells and I don't… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Building a relationship with the character. It's just like sitting with someone you know. It's very easy to predict when they're going… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“Children built snowmen in their front lawns, played in the yard of the public library. I would miss that old library. I… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“I can imagine myself saying at the time that life itself was like a book borrowed from the library—something that did not… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power,… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death. — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen there, feeling… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“Talking to Reva about misery was insufferable. 'Look on the bright side,' was what she wanted everyone to do.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted,… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of anything current or faddish made me feel I was just a victim of isolation.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hold onto the house the way you'd hold onto a love letter. It was proof that I had not always been… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“Like a favorite song you’ve heard so many times it begins to annoy you,” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“I watched that old world go by, away and away, gone gone gone, until, like me, it disappeared.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“I was nervous. It had been a long time since I’d gone any place I wanted to be.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
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