In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young …

- 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 onlin…

- 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.

- Elissa Schappell

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

- 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 Lo…

- Elissa Schappell

Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram f…

- Elissa Schappell

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 lik…

- Elissa Schappell

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

- 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 t…

- Elissa Schappell