Jenny Offill quotes

And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear. (Jenny Offill)
One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done. View quote
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But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be. View quote
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A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things. View quote
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The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three. View quote
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The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.) View quote
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A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say. View quote
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Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits. View quote
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Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and read my life away. View quote
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Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it. View quote
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I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality. (Jenny Offill)
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel. View quote
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Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friend calls it. View quote
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I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in... I'm not sure why I have the work habits of a 20-year-old coder, but no matter how many times I set up a more reasonable schedule, I always fall back to this. View quote
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