For me, one of the reasons I love this form - the personal essay form - is because it's a way of forming an intimacy with the reader. What I'm saying to the reader is: I'm going to tell you… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader. — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
The greatest sex toy ever invented may be the telephone. Sometimes there's nothing more erotic than a disembodied voice, no question more tantalizing than… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
A lot of the reason I left New York, in addition to being so broke, was that I just felt I was becoming provincial… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends and that's a way of recording what I was thinking… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I mean, being provincial is a privilege in a way. Also people in New York think everybody interacts because they all take the subway.… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I just am a person who loves houses. In a way, it's dovetailed into one of the themes of The Unspeakable: Why do you… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
For me, one of the reasons I love this form - the personal essay form - is because it's a way of forming an… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
New York is such a special place. It's really intense for people because they live here when they're young. On top of the energy… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the easy part.… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
![“I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because]…” quote by Meghan Daum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/107/meghan-daum-18332_bears_i-feel-that-i-m-an-essayist-and-that-my_1054935.jpg)
