167 Quotes by Megan Abbott

I think we writers are very superstitious. We don't know why it's working when it's working, so we attach cause and effect.

If I have a writing problem, the minute I step away, there's a solution.

I've consumed true crime since first discovering 'Helter Skelter' by Vincent Bugliosi in a used bookstore at age 9 or 10 and staring in fascination and horror at the crime-scene photos in the middle.

I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.

I thought labs were such cinematic, spooky spaces.

I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a terrible book.

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don't think writing TV has.

On 'The Deuce,' the writers' room gets like group therapy.