Latest Danielle Trussoni Quotes from Interviews

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• When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Alive, Capable

  Source: therumpus.net

• I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village in the south of France was very different than the fantasy I had of living in France. Over the years I spent there, that fantasy was worn away and I found a more realistic version of France than the one I began with. I wouldn't say the spell ever goes away, but transforms. Now that I understand French culture more intimately, and speak fluent French, I have a different, more solid, relationship to the country.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Country, New York, Reality

  Source: therumpus.net

• Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Two, Creating, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Writing, Fiction, Pleasure

  Source: therumpus.net

• Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Jobs, Fear Of Failure, Choose To Be Happy

  Source: therumpus.net

• I'm sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France, I lived in Japan, England, and Bulgaria. I was determined to experience other places and cultures, particularly because I had the perception that I'd been cut off from these experiences as a child.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Children, Growing Up, Cutting

  Source: therumpus.net

• That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Walks, Amour, L Amour

  Source: therumpus.net

• We create an image of happiness and success and then we are beholden to it. We tell ourselves stories and sometimes these stories become so strong as to imprison us. Breaking free from our personal fortresses is a long, hard journey, but ultimately what allows one to grow.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Strong, Journey, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

• If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Writing, Who I Am, Essentials

  Source: therumpus.net

• I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Writing, Self, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

• In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read a memoir, I want to really, deeply experience what the author experienced. I want to see the characters and hear the way they speak and understand how they think. And so in that way, writing a memoir feels similar to writing a novel.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Narrative Voice, Creating, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

• I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Believe, Character, Should Have

  Source: therumpus.net

• The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus operate within the boundaries of memory and fact.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Memories, Writing, Differences

  Source: therumpus.net

• I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out. What if one day these stories become something stronger, more real, than fairy tales?

  Danielle Trussoni

  Real, Believe, What If

  Source: therumpus.net

• One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Writing, Want, One Thing

  Source: www.elle.com

• If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Work Out, Kitchen, Dishes

  Source: www.elle.com

• I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture for longer than vampires have been. I hope they become a part of the culture again in a new way.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Angel, Thinking, Vampire

  Source: www.elle.com

• If people start pulling away the stereotypes of what angels are instead of these fluffy, teddy-bear kinds of angels, then they'll see, historically, that they were terrifying in some depictions. In the Bible, from what I remember, often the reaction to angels is one of terror.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Angel, People, Pulling Away

  Source: www.elle.com

• Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Angel, Thinking, Inspire

  Source: www.elle.com

• When I was little, I went to a Catholic school and was required to go to church every morning and with my parents on Sundays, so I spent a lot of time sitting on a wooden pew. Angels are sort of a relief. If you're looking around, the other imagery is so dark and heavy. Looking at the beautifully rendered pictures of angels was more uplifting.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Uplifting, Morning, Angel

  Source: www.elle.com

• I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious literature. It's still out there, and people are still interested. Even in the more secular way, books about angels are everywhere.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Religious, Book, Angel

  Source: www.elle.com

• People don't actually think there is such a thing out there as angel research.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Angel, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

• Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Writing, Angel, Discipline

  Source: www.elle.com

• I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Real, Writing, Different

  Source: www.elle.com