All Jenny Offill Quotes
- My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters… Almost Never
- Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it. Ago
- For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness. Desk
- Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits. Ambition
- A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things. All
- And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next… Baby
- The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.) Doomed
- You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends. Blue
- The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back… Buddhist
- A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But… Amount
- The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out. Certain
- But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally… Fewer
- To live in a city is to be forever flinching, Cities
- One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can… Certainty
- My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead, Art
- These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs. Bits
- I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it. Inspirational
- When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere. Elsewhere
- I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again. Contained
- What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake. Alive
- Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to… Art
- I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a… Contrarian