Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach us to appreciate the strange wonder of our existence. — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
People throughout time have grieved, have fallen in love, have fallen out of love. We are sometimes petty and sometimes heroic, and we have… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate fish fries in the backyard, kiddie pools in the front yard, and unfettered views of a thousand starts in the night sky? So much of life is intangible, and places don't feel like they're disappearing to the people who are living there. I went to Accomack County and I found endless metaphors for a dying county… — Monica Hesse Copy Share
“Lucky has become such a relative term, when the standards to meet it involve only not being treated like a criminal in your own… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
“But maybe rural America isn't dying so much as it's Shucker-ing: adjusting, adapting, becoming something new, getting a new outdoor sign and adding jalapeno… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
I hope people will never stop dressing up as Harry Potter. It feels less to me like something you wear because you think it's… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other. — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up - I'm… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
By the end of his life, one has a far easier time picturing Hugh Hefner buying his girlfriend a comfy pair of slippers than… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
Cooking is a weird thing. In homes, I'd wager it's still women who do more of the cooking. — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
“Jeff Beall. Beall was a tall man with a bristling mustache and a wit as dry as sandpaper. He’d drive thirty miles to loan… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension - which is something you want in a really good nonfiction feature article… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
“As economies change, as landscapes change, nostalgia is the only good America will never stop producing. We gorge on it ourselves and pass it… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
