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

I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're….

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

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

To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actua….

I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Someti….

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

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

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

If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people seem to evaluate your ….

Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details ….

A lot of people get to the point in their careers where blurbs are ghostwritten for them, because they're like, "I want to support this person, it's ….

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

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

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