Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult. — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition,… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm not being… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
The pressure to be thin, which causes guilt and obsessiveness around food, is terrible and starts so early. For me, it started at sixteen… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever I want… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I was also writing in a tradition and trying to do something different with it, something that hadn't necessarily been done before, which was… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
