With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bom…

- Alissa Nutting

exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.

- Alissa Nutting

It was just such a complete shock to turn on the news one day and see someone that you know, someone you have passed in the halls of your high school…

- Alissa Nutting

I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, thi…

- Alissa Nutting

It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you read a book be…

- Alissa Nutting

Luckily I'm on prescription drugs that prevent me from worrying about anything too much.

- Alissa Nutting

I've seen men in $5,000 suits urinate in public fountains here. Las Vegas is the best place on earth.

- Alissa Nutting

For many years I wrote nothing but "I will not sleep with Steve Almond" over and over again, page after page à la Jack Torrance in The Shining. Final…

- Alissa Nutting

During my MFA, I was lucky to be surrounded by a really supportive group of peers. And now I get feedback pretty exclusively from freaks only.

- Alissa Nutting