“I was nervous. It had been a long time since I’d gone any place I wanted to be.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“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
There are all these levels of pretension in LA. Every time you walk into a café or a bar or a restaurant… — 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
“For a moment I felt joyful, and then I felt completely exhausted.” — 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
“The Weirdos On our first date, he bought me a taco, talked at length about the ancients' theories of light, how it… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“She couldn't or simply wouldn't understand why I wanted to sleep all the time, and she was always rubbing my nose in… — 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
“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