KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Marisha Pessl Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Marisha Pessl

Showing 1-10 of 11 Quotes by Marisha Pessl

Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.

~Marisha Pessl

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

~Marisha Pessl

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

~Marisha Pessl

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'

~Marisha Pessl

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

~Marisha Pessl

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.

~Marisha Pessl

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

~Marisha Pessl

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.

~Marisha Pessl

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

~Marisha Pessl

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.

~Marisha Pessl

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 26th, 1977

Links

Find Marisha Pessl on Amazon

Related Authors

Ray Bradbury
Dale Carnegie
Robert A. Heinlein
Napoleon Hill
Elbert Hubbard
H. L. Mencken
Dr. Seuss
William Arthur Ward

Popular Authors

Jean-Michel Basquiat Alfred Hitchcock Immanuel Kant Abraham Maslow Danny Meyer Kurt Vonnegut Denis Waitley Virginia Woolf

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Amazing Computers Dating Environmental Government Science Technology Truth