Megan Abbott quotes

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels. (Megan Abbott)

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

Megan Abbott

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.

Megan Abbott

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.

Megan Abbott

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

Megan Abbott

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

Megan Abbott

The more I did it―the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't.

Megan Abbott

In the world of book writing, there's a few people, maybe, where you have close relationships. In TV, there are so many more relationships, and they're all so critical.

Megan Abbott

I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

Megan Abbott

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

Megan Abbott

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Occupation: American Author
Born: August 21, 1971
Quotes count: 10

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