Megan Abbott

“She said I'd better not make her unhappy because I oughta know that she's never unhappy alone.”

— Megan Abbott

Reading Dorothy B. Hughes's novel 'In a Lonely Place' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an…

— Megan Abbott

“Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness.”

— Megan Abbott

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

— Megan Abbott

I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.

— Megan Abbott

I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless.

— Megan Abbott

“But she became Gabby’s friend in that way that can happen, because the girl with the cool boots always finds the girl…

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“Where’d that world go, that world when you’re a kid, and now I can’t remember noticing anything, not the smell of the…

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“This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills…

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The speed of the TV stuff vs. the self-imposed pace of novel writing has been a big adjustment, and going back and…

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“We’re all the same under our skin, aren’t we? We’re all wanting things we don’t understand. Things we can’t even name. The…

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“I think she might cry. In her way, she is.”

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The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and…

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“Here he is, the man who knows things and who should want to help me. But it is so hard to bring…

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On 'The Deuce,' the writers' room gets like group therapy.

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Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The…

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“I feel a shaking in me, and it's the ground. It's like the ground is shaking and I will slip through. Then,…

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“All those posters and PSAs and health class presentations on body image and the way you can burst blood vessels in your…

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I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.

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“Running so hard, her breath stippled with pain to go faster, hit the grass harder, move forward faster, like she could break…

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No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like…

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“If we look at it from eye corners, or from places other than the center of our head, isn’t there a kind…

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I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone…

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I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they…

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I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

— Megan Abbott