Alissa Nutting Quotes

Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.

Alissa Nutting

• Writing
• Morals
• Las Vegas

If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.

Alissa Nutting

• Crime
• Actions
• Acknowledge

Luckily I'm on prescription drugs that prevent me from worrying about anything too much.

Alissa Nutting

• Drugs
• Worrying
• Prescription

It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you read a book because you like the character, you are cheering for the character; you want the best for the character.

Alissa Nutting

• Character
• Book
• Narrator

Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary.

Alissa Nutting

• Living
• Level
• Diary

I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.

Alissa Nutting

• Attractive
• Academic
• Write Off

I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes, than drama.

Alissa Nutting

• Drama
• Humor
• Shield

I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.

Alissa Nutting

• Character
• Technique
• Readers

During my MFA, I was lucky to be surrounded by a really supportive group of peers. And now I get feedback pretty exclusively from freaks only.

Alissa Nutting

• Group
• Feedback
• Peers

I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.

Alissa Nutting

• Person
• Part
• Adolescence