"Teenagers are exciting to write for," he says.
They don't think that it's exciting to write about the "differences" that might come up between the different parties.
Those extreme juxtapositions are so exciting to write about: it's like a perfect experiment, testing one version of the truth against another, incompatible version, and seeing what explosions, what deformations result.
There is a haunting suspicion running all through "Night Film": that this book was more exciting to write than to read, and that Ms. Pessl reveled too contentedly in the universe she created.
"Are you asking me if it was sexually exciting to write?" Er, yes.
"It's quite exciting to write down things like 'I want to fuck you really hard', in a way you perhaps would never say face to face with someone.
More serious now, he says that this "deep need" first manifested itself when he was 12. "I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write".
"Sex can be amazingly great -- if you are turned on, and gross and terrible if you are not, so trust what is exciting to you," the comedian wrote on her site. .
"It was exciting to think that this was written by a woman….There are things in all these plays that seem to have a woman's touch".
Her follow-up, "Night Film," hasn't collected quite the same level of praise; in the daily New York Times, Janet Maslin cited a "haunting suspicion" that the book "was more exciting to write than to read".
