Marisha Pessl Quotes
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
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I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.
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The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.
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I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
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My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
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The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
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A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.
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Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.
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Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
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Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
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I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
