Sloane Crosley Quotes
Top 76 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.
Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.
I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.
We all deserve to be congratulated, but sadly that would mean there's no one left to do the congratulating.
I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.
It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.
You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself.
A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.
Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey.
You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'
I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene.
The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere.
When you have a steady and lifelong group of girlfriends, chances are the person you're telling the story to is actually part of the story.
A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.
My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.
The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer.
I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.
One day you turn and "social studies" has become "Chilean fiefdoms of the fourteenth century" and that's how you know you're in college.
It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.
When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.
Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.
I am the proud indentured servant of a brilliant art adviser who may or may not have purposely stapled my index finger to a manila folder
Besides, a new decade is a chance to find oneself at the beginning of things. Oh, life! What a sweet little Etch A Sketch of time you are!
Sang's ass was not so much an ass but a continuation of leg and bone, covered by pockets because society demanded it be covered by pockets.
In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.
Americans love that, no? To think of jewelry as a dead thing. This is why you keep the Hope Diamond next to your dinosaur bones.
For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.
The way the floors of the library became progressively less social as you worked your way up. The first floor was a meat market. The top was monkish.
And there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.
I don't do emoticons unless I'm making a big deal out of them. I'll type out, 'This is so amusing it makes me want to grin in pixels.' And then do it.
Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.
I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.
Hey there.' I cleared my throat. 'How are you?'
I'm engaged!'
Incidentally, this is an unacceptable answer to that question.
I'm engaged!'
Incidentally, this is an unacceptable answer to that question.
I was compiling a list in my head titled 'Reasons to Get Up: You Don't Have to Leave, but You Can't Pee Here.
The lies we construct to defend ourselves from humiliation are the strongest, refusing to be torn down.
I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.