Thinking Quotes by Emily Gould

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

No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.

— Emily Gould

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

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

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

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

— Emily Gould

“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

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

— Emily Gould

“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

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

— Emily Gould

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

— Emily Gould

No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.

— Emily Gould