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
For me, I enjoy intimidating people and I enjoy being intimidated. It is exciting. It's cool to have an experience with someone… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I was feeling like I'd been born in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. I don't believe… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Distance is where people get really confused. If you stand really far away from someone you're like, "That's not me. I'm so… — 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
There are a lot of smart people being really thoughtful and writing really interesting things, but that isn't what I want to… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I think we waste a lot of time trying to convince other people that we're right. A lot of times we don't… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I don't need to feel 100% safe, but I have to feel like there's room for me to go a little bit… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Think about every time you've seen someone being objectified, abused, enslaved. We see it constantly on the TV, in magazines, on the… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
People have been asking me, "What advice do you have for young writers?" I tell them: a) get off social media; b)… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Anybody that I like that you talk to about me will probably agree that when I'm hanging out with someone one-on-one, I… — 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