Ottessa Moshfegh Quotes About Character

• 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.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Escritura, Carácter, Pensamiento

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

• I don't really pity any of my characters. I hold my characters under a harsh fluorescent lamp and ask "Who are you?" I'm not doing their makeup or giving them hairdos. They present themselves to me as they are and then I let them say what they want. Usually they're saying something too honest.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Character, Makeup, Giving

  Fuente: logger.believermag.com

• 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.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Real, Creer, Escribir

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Building a relationship with the character. It's just like sitting with someone you know. It's very easy to predict when they're going to shake their head or say whatever, but because I'm the author I have to make characters do what I want them to do.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Character, Building, Easy

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Libro, Personaje, Interesante

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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