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

- Emily Gould

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

- Emily Gould

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

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

- Emily Gould