Melissa Bank
Melissa Bank
Melissa Bankis an American author. She has published two books, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, a volume of short stories, and The Wonder Spot, a novel, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She currently teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
except good sentence sit writer
When I sit down to write, 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.
less notice perfect reading vivid
'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 story than experiencing it firsthand.
neither nor rid tv useful
I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
way kind difficult
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 I respect, what I hold dear.
beautiful tvs live-by
I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
cheating husband might
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.
teacher boys rejection
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 no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.
teacher college thinking
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 teacher's interpretations of what we read.
lost seems felt
She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.
simple feelings scare
It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.
stars night light
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 subway or rushing to a movie, you only saw it for a second, and close up. Now I took a good long look. I'd always heard you couldn't see stars in Manhattan because of all the lights. But here they all were. Here was my night in shining armor.
girl growing-up couple
The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.
weakness sometimes compelling
Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.
people waiting kind
He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.