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
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.
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.
dream want feels
You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.
hate teeth feels
I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.
nice animal predator
Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.
havens
The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.
years looks stuff
Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.
forgiving goes-on want
You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.
way lost i-realized
I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.
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.