“As a child I was a little bit disgusted and embarrassed to learn about the facts of life, and did not immediately connect the idea of “sex” to the feelings I got when I lay on the carpet on my… — 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
