Ottessa Moshfegh Quotes About Reading

• 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.

• I want to say that what is cool about writing self-aware first person narrative is that the awareness is not necessarily the same awareness of the reader. I have a story coming out in the Paris Review and it's about a hipster. He think's he's self-aware, he's very introspective and analytical, but when you're reading it you can totally see through his self-analysis because you have a higher awareness than he does. I like playing with that too.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Hipster, Reading, Writing

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I don't remember reading much at all during the writing of Eileen. I go through several years-long dry spells and I don't feel like reading at all. I was working part-time for a guy in Venice, California while I drafted Eileen. He wanted help in writing his memoir. The research had a lot to do with the 60s, so that must have informed my sense of the place and time in my novel, and perhaps even the memoir point-of-view. He was also from New England. It was a fun job. I learned a lot about motorcycle clubs, Charles Manson, hopping freight trains.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Diversión, Lectura, Escritura

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• I prefer reading novels. Short stories are too much like daggers. And now that I'm done with my collection I'm more interested in different forms of writing and other kinds of narrative art. I'm working on a screenplay. But when I was working on Eileen, I definitely felt like I was taking a piss. Like, here I am, typing on my computer, writing the "novel." It wasn't that it was insincere, but there was a kind of farcical feeling I had when I was writing.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Arte, Lectura, Escritura

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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