Melissa Bank Quotes
With so much sky and so much river, you couldn't help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the subway or rushing to a movie, you only saw it for a second, and close up. Now I took a good long look. I'd always heard you couldn't see stars in Manhattan because of all the lights. But here they all were. Here was my night in shining armor.
Bank, Melissa. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Viking, 1999.
Melissa Bank (born 1961 in Philadelphia) is an American author. She has published two books—The Wonder Spot, a volume of short stories; and The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, a novel—which have been translated into over 30 languages. Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She currently teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.