Marisha Pessl
Marisha Pessl
Marisha Pesslis an American writer best known for her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 October 1977
CountryUnited States of America
three next teeth
Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times...
freak
Freak the ferocious out.
hate men show-me
Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.
hate book reading
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.
believe writing character
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.
attitude book people
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.
writing ideas havens
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
band kind realizing
Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.
understanding defeated
It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
worried worms ends
I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
mind bending world
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.
few-words napkins cocktails
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
america people house
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?
past color light
Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.