Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or… — 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 Image
No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 was even clear at the time, though not as clear as it is now. But I did these things because I felt the pull of a trajectory, a sense of experience piling up the way it… — 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 Image
“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 Image
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
“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 Image
I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
