Marisha Pessl
Marisha Pessl
Marisha Pesslis an American writer best known for her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth26 October 1977
CountryUnited States of America
writing ideas havens
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
band kind realizing
Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.
understanding defeated
It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
worried worms ends
I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
mind bending world
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.
few-words napkins cocktails
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.
america people house
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?
past color light
Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.
ignorant mystery journalist
You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.
crazy blue sky
Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there's not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in the sky. With something like that right in front of you, you can't help but feel there's new possibilities out there.
differences
What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?
night forever changing-your-life
It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.
song writing character
When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.
writing forever band
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.