"Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were……" — Marisha Pessl
"Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work."
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77 Quotes by Marisha Pessl
Marisha Pessl has 77 quotes on this site.
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Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.
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There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.
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I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so…
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It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
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Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.
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I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's…
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Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to…
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I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good…
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I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply…
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If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing…
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In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were…
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In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black…
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I really, really like writing songs. Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit…
— Debbie Harry
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Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.
— Debbie Harry
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Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into…
— Gore Vidal
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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
— Joseph Epstein
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Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying…
— Jon Stewart
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Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.
— Rich Little
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I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
— Kiran Desai
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I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years.…
— Toby Jones
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My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
— Alvin Ailey
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Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never…
— Joshua Foer
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I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my…
— Chris Pratt
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't…
— Zadie Smith
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