For many years I wrote nothing but "I will not sleep with Steve Almond" over and over again, page after page à… — Alissa Nutting Able Copy Share Image
“I was like a turd inside someone who'd accidentally swallowed an engagement ring: I was nothing, yet I carried something uniquely special.” — Alissa Nutting Engagement ring Copy Share Image
“When had she so internalized the feeling that if something wasn’t great she needed to bridge the gap between reality and idealism… — Alissa Nutting Computers Copy Share Image
“Melted cheese is a culinary veil...a foxhole where mediocrity can hide.” — Alissa Nutting Cheese Copy Share Image
I think what tends to embarrass me most is how much I struggle at the little things that seem to come so… — Alissa Nutting Back when Copy Share Image
“Do you know how when people are really hungry they will be driven to eat the inedible? Grass and soil and the… — Alissa Nutting Love Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger. — Alissa Nutting Academia Copy Share Image
“How best to convey that she wasn’t fraught with grief without seeming like a monster? “We’ve reached a point of acceptance with… — Alissa Nutting Death Copy Share Image
“Maybe lifelike mannequins were the way to go in terms of hospice. They could be tailor-made for this purpose—Diane’s full breasts could… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's… — Alissa Nutting Bones Copy Share Image
“The numbers could never be as favorable as they were right now, when his naiveté would be subtracted from my expertise to… — Alissa Nutting Right now Copy Share Image
Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a… — Alissa Nutting Corners Copy Share Image
“Do you know what broccoli is like to your body? It is like a hundred-dollar bill. When you eat it, you are… — Alissa Nutting Health Copy Share Image
It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of… — Alissa Nutting Book Copy Share Image
You want to do all of these preventative things to make sure you always look as young as possible, you don't want… — Alissa Nutting Action Copy Share Image
During my MFA, I was lucky to be surrounded by a really supportive group of peers. And now I get feedback pretty… — Alissa Nutting Feedback Copy Share Image
“Hazel then attempted to break the doll’s head open on the nightstand like a piggy bank, but Diane’s exterior proved to be… — Alissa Nutting Piggy bank Copy Share Image
I've worked hard on my doctorate, and I want to be acknowledged for that. But I also wanted to comment on this… — Alissa Nutting Appearance Copy Share Image
“The screams echoing through Janet's class were hard to bear. She was attempting a lecture on the Treaty of Paris while Mrs.… — Alissa Nutting Classrooms Copy Share Image
My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie"… — Alissa Nutting Categories Copy Share Image
“Hazel sometimes had a fantasy daydream at school where the teacher walked into the classroom and yelled, ISN’T EVERYTHING HORRIBLE? DOESN’T THE… — Alissa Nutting Help others Copy Share Image
I think that in our culture there is this message to males that any time you can have sex with an attractive… — Alissa Nutting Age Copy Share Image
