All Melissa Bank Quotes
- During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find… Been
- I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street. Anything Neither
- I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map. Any
- It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband. Cheating
- I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held… Avoid
- I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what… Dear
- Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I… All
- Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English… Called
- Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a… Even Notice
- Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be… Book
- Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes.… All
- You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do. Forgive
- I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved… Anything Else
- We are all children until our fathers die. All
- He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made. Inspirational
- In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face… Archie
- You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression… Been
- She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost. Felt
- It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details. Big
- With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the… All