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Ottessa Moshfegh

American Author

Born: May 20, 1981

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.' Ottessa Moshfegh

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I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. Ottessa Moshfegh

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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered. Ottessa Moshfegh

Women People Down Particularly Get Disgusting Fiction Frustrated Found Shut

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell. Ottessa Moshfegh

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