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
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.
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.
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.
wonder dangerous feels
You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.
hate teeth feels
I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.
havens
The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.
father believe expression
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 my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.
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.
weakness sometimes compelling
Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.
hate voice advice
Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.