American - Writer | November 28, 1986 -
Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I spent the first 22 years of my life absorbing everything, like a big disgusting cell, and now I'm disgorging it with jokes added out into the world. That's a really gross metaphor.
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.
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I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of - the Western canon is here, and it's gossipy and tawdry, and everyone is sort of goofy.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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