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 actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
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… — Emily Gould Copy Share
No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book. — Emily Gould Copy Share
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… — Emily Gould Copy Share
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… — Emily Gould Copy Share
I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes the wrongness… — Emily Gould Copy Share
Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority. — Emily Gould Copy Share
“And there was Sam’s charming Marxist thing of thinking that restaurants, new clothes, et cetera, were frivolities that only served to keep workers addicted… — Emily Gould Copy Share
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories. — Emily Gould Copy Share
“I stopped typing and started having a conversation about the blog post with my boyfriend. He said he’d liked the part where the narrator… — Emily Gould Copy Share
When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority. — Emily Gould Copy Share
“She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What… — Emily Gould Copy Share
To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are… — Emily Gould Copy Share
I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book. — Emily Gould Copy Share
