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 of your own experiences and your own life.
I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer. - Emily Gould
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
I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.
No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book. - Emily Gould
No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.
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
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 …
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories. - Emily Gould
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority. - Emily Gould
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… - 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…
Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority. - Emily Gould
Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.
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
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…
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