Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.

Emily Gould's Popular Quotes

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

- Emily Gould

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

- Emily Gould

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

- Emily Gould

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

- Emily Gould

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

- Emily Gould

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 …

- Emily Gould

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…

- Emily Gould

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

- Emily Gould

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…

- Emily Gould