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Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.
Marisha Pessl
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Marisha Pessl
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 26
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Clarkston
Michigan
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Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.
Marisha Pessl
When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.
Marisha Pessl
Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?
Marisha Pessl
In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?
Marisha Pessl
Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.
Marisha Pessl
…how monstrous the people you loved could be.
Marisha Pessl
What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?
Marisha Pessl
Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.
Marisha Pessl
It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.
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Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.
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I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.
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I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.
Marisha Pessl
May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.
Marisha Pessl
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.
Marisha Pessl
I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.
Marisha Pessl
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.
Marisha Pessl
Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.
Marisha Pessl
...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.
Marisha Pessl
Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.
Marisha Pessl
I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
Marisha Pessl