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.
havens
The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.
weakness sometimes compelling
Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.