Emily Gould Quotes

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.

Existential angst was far, far above her pay grade.

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.