Megan Abbott famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift.
-- Megan Abbott

#Reading #Tomatoes #Fiction
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
-- Megan Abbott

#New York #Writing #Years
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.
-- Megan Abbott

#Humorous #Thinking #Views
I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.
-- Megan Abbott

#Thinking #Age #Certain
I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.
-- Megan Abbott

#Crime #Novel
Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you're a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet.
-- Megan Abbott

#Fall #Kids #Reflection
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to vivid life four extraordinary and audacious women, and runs glorious roughshod over all our traditional notions of the role of women in the Civil War.
-- Megan Abbott

#Running #War #Liars
The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't.
-- Megan Abbott

#Empowerment #Matter #Necks
If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.
-- Megan Abbott

#Beautiful
No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.
-- Megan Abbott

#Age #Rats #Tilt
There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.
-- Megan Abbott

#Girl #Teenage #Boredom

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