Ottessa Moshfegh Quotes

• What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted, seeing more of the beauty and also the horror. A sense of my own purpose in this life. Love...

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Love Life, Race, Growth

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• Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power, probably the stars manipulating our cellular magnets. We think we have all this agency, but do we? Do we really? Can you choose to be brave when you were born a coward? Can we be deprogrammed from the brainwashing that we grew up in? I think we can, but I think we need a lot of help.

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  Thinking, Brave, Coward

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Art, Real, Cutting

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• You can't be a free spirit in a place that feels like it was built on lockdown.

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  Free Spirit, Spirit

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.

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  Spiritual, Writing, Exercise

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• People have been asking me, "What advice do you have for young writers?" I tell them: a) get off social media; b) don't ask your friends what they think about your work or your ideas. You need to focus and be insane within yourself to build your sandcastle. The mind is so malleable and you need to have a steel trap around it, at least while you're working on something.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Pensamiento, Personas, Enfoque

  "'We're all together on this weird planet doing weird shit': an Interview with Writer Ottessa Moshfegh". Interview with Kameron Bashi, believermag.com. May 15, 2017.

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• Reality is a projection of consciousness, so if you believe - more than just think - but believe, subliminally, that something is true, it will become true because you will make micro-decisions based on the reality that you have faith in.

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  Creer, Realidad, Pensar

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• I live in East Hollywood which is sort of the end of the grit, butting up against Silverlake and Los Feliz which are the refined gentrified hipster zones, which I tend to appreciate when I need to get coffee, but I like living in the grit. I like feeling separate from that elitist civilization in some way, even though I don't really "belong" in the grit either. But I do spend more than half my time now in the desert which is really nice - to be off the grid, remembering that the world is bigger than the city streets.

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  Hipster, Nice, Coffee

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• I hope that I'm the kind of person who would step in between somebody holding a gun at somebody else. I would like to be that stupid. I'd like to be that in love with life.

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  Stupid, Love Life, Gun

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen there, feeling nothing. It's very easy to have conversations when you're sitting there feeling nothing, to talk about the weather or what you had for lunch, to Instagram what you had for lunch. We're all suffering from trauma. This world is so crazy. How do we feel safe here? I think that's the question everybody's asking, "What do I need to do to feel safe? Like I'm okay?" I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

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  Running, Crazy, Fighting

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• Lo que pasa con California es que es una especie de sueño, y empecé a sentir que vivía en un sueño. Todavía me siento así. Por eso creo que he podido hacer realidad muchas cosas que eran sólo ideas. Cuando vivía en New York, era una carrera de ratas, muy competitiva y todo era tan concreto y estaba siempre delante de tus narices. Si eres como, "¡Voy a ser escritor!" Todo el mundo es como, "Sí, tú y todos los otros imbéciles en el metro." No hay mucho espacio para el movimiento independiente y libre de la imaginación.

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  Dream, Thinking, Imagination

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the ways that a voice that knows it's telling a story is actually telling a different story than it intends to. In the way that I can sit here and tell you what I had for breakfast, but I'm really telling you that I'm having an affair, something like that. And I don't think my writing is plain, but I think a lot of my characters are just talking. There is vulnerability there, in that we can start to see through them, we can start to see where they're deceiving themselves.

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  Escritura, Carácter, Pensamiento

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• Hay mucha gente inteligente que es muy reflexiva y escribe cosas muy interesantes, pero eso no es lo que yo quiero hacer. Nunca me he sentido llamada a hacerlo. Y me arriesgo a sonar arrogante cuando digo esto porque he ido a escuelas de la Ivy League y he sido privilegiada en todos los sentidos en el mundo de las ideas, pero no soy tan inteligente como crees. No dependo realmente de lo que aprendí en la universidad para escribir mis libros. Son sólo partes de mi experiencia vital.

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  Smart, Book, Writing

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• I think we waste a lot of time trying to convince other people that we're right. A lot of times we don't actually care what another person thinks, we just want to say what we think. To hear it reflected back to us and that we're okay, to hear that we have been understood and that we're correct - so that we can continue to be who we are in the ways we've been being, and we have nothing to feel bad about and everything is just fine. Even if what we're talking about is, like, police brutality.

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  Thinking, People, Police

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• I've dedicated a lot of my life as a writer to understanding how to hear the divine voice, or the music of the spheres, or whatever it is that we do when we're making art, making something out of nothing. Figuring out how to do that is much more important than knowing how to execute a good line. I don't think about that anymore, I just write.

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  Arte, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• Sabes que por eso a la gente no le gustan los personajes desagradables. No es que no sean interesantes. Todo el mundo sabe que el personaje más interesante en un libro o una película o cualquier narrativa es el villano.

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  Libro, Personaje, Interesante

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Piensa en todas las veces que has visto a alguien siendo cosificado, maltratado, esclavizado. Lo vemos constantemente en la televisión, en las revistas, en Internet. Nos hemos vuelto insensibles, así que no hacemos nada. La acumulación de pasividad puede hacer que leer sobre esa explotación resulte incómodo. Y a veces, cuando escribo, pienso en ello así: "Parece que a la gente le gusta la basura, así que esto es a lo que huele la basura...".

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Leer, escribir, pensar

  "Go Forth (Vol. 36)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. August 25, 2015.

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• If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

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  Horror Genre, People, Looks

  "Go Forth (Vol. 36)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. August 25, 2015.

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• I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

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  Talking, Talking Too Much, Too Much

  "Character Finds A Path Out Of Her Personal Prison In 'Eileen'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 15, 2015.

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• I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.

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  Mom, Dad, School

  "Character Finds A Path Out Of Her Personal Prison In 'Eileen'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 15, 2015.

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• No siento lástima por ninguno de mis personajes. Sostengo a mis personajes bajo una dura lámpara fluorescente y les pregunto: "¿Quién eres?". No les maquillo ni les peino. Se me presentan tal como son y luego les dejo que digan lo que quieran. Normalmente dicen algo demasiado sincero.

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  Character, Makeup, Giving

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• There are all these levels of pretension in LA. Every time you walk into a café or a bar or a restaurant in LA everybody turns around to see if you're famous. Everybody can seem like a celebrity. You can meet somebody who looks like Joe Schmoe and he turns out to be the head of HBO or something. Or you meet a person who just won an Oscar and he looks like he just won an Oscar. And it's a sprawling city, there's so many different parts to it.

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  Different, Pretension

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

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• I was feeling like I'd been born in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. I don't believe that anymore, not coincidentally two years after writing Eileen. I think that was the driving curiosity for me, thinking about real and fictional characters who could respond to that problem.

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  Real, Creer, Escribir

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order to do that well, I think, one needs to point out the artifice of the narrative. Somehow if the narrator is self-aware then it's almost more humanizing and more relatable.

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  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.

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  Thinking, Apartment, My Own

  "Character Finds A Path Out Of Her Personal Prison In 'Eileen'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 15, 2015.

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