“There was no sadness or nostalgia, only disgust that I’d wasted so much time on unnecessary labor when I could have been sleeping and feeling nothing.” FeelingsJobsWorkSleepLaborEmploymentJobNothingWorking Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
“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.” WorldFeelingsRememberNiceAppreciateCoffeeZoneReally NiceHipsterElitist Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
“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.” ThinkingWorldFeelingsRunningSufferingFightingEasyCrazyOkayTraumaIndifference Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
“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.” PeopleThinkingWritingBelieveRealCharacterFeelingsProblemCuriosityDrivingWrong TimeFictional Character Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
“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.” WritingKindArtDifferentDoneFeelingsReadingNovelComputerShort StoryTypingInsincere Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
