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Elissa Schappell Books

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Elissa Schappell is an American novelist whose works often delve into themes of family, memory, and identity. Her writing is known for its introspective and emotionally charged narratives.

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Author:Elissa Schappell

“Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.”

Language Limits Mortals

Author:Elissa Schappell

“While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.”

Men Feels Stories Compassion Serious Ghost Love Story Admire Max Illuminating Estimation Ghost Stories

Author:Elissa Schappell

“You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.”

Knows Mother Choices Sleep Poor Rich Drug Heroin

Book:Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction

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“Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.”

Girl Fool Just A Girl

Book:Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction

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“A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.”

People Needs Girl Middle Mom Ocean Appearance My Mom Flesh Wounds Uncomfortable Swimming Appearing Single Girl

Book:Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction

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“Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.”

Writing Manage Exhaustion

Author:Elissa Schappell

“I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.”

Hard States Home Easy Focus Empty Chaos Productive Online Perpetual Apartment Distracted Procrastinating

Author:Elissa Schappell

“In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.”

Facts Together Young Fiction Cases Circumstances Quiet Female Solve Reporters Dell Fact And Fiction

Author:Elissa Schappell

“The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.”

Stories Universe Stars Adventure Dawn Restless Astonishing

Author:Elissa Schappell

“By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow. You shortchange yourself by devaluing the experiences and knowledge you've banked, all those things that have been making you, you.”

Has Beens Opportunity Grows Who You Are Investing Change Yourself

Author:Elissa Schappell

“By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.”

Opportunity Grows Who You Are Investing

Author:Elissa Schappell

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