Danielle Trussoni
Danielle Trussoni
Danielle Anne Trussoni is an American writer. Her work includes four books: Falling Through the Earth; Angelology, Angelopolisand a forthcoming memoir The Fortress. In addition to being published in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine and Tin House, her writings have been widely anthologized...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
night years escaping
Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it
writing want one-thing
One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.
angel thinking people
People don't actually think there is such a thing out there as angel research.
writing angel discipline
Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.
religious book angel
I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious literature. It's still out there, and people are still interested. Even in the more secular way, books about angels are everywhere.
uplifting morning school
When I was little, I went to a Catholic school and was required to go to church every morning and with my parents on Sundays, so I spent a lot of time sitting on a wooden pew. Angels are sort of a relief. If you're looking around, the other imagery is so dark and heavy. Looking at the beautifully rendered pictures of angels was more uplifting.
angel people fluffy
If people start pulling away the stereotypes of what angels are instead of these fluffy, teddy-bear kinds of angels, then they'll see, historically, that they were terrifying in some depictions. In the Bible, from what I remember, often the reaction to angels is one of terror.
angel thinking inspire
Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear.
beautiful play ears
Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.
falling-in-love eye childhood
I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.
work-out kitchen dishes
If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.
enemy important treacherous
But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.
wise action reckless
Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.
angel land paradise
Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.