I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The nursery rhyme ends when a spider comes along and frightens Miss Muffet straight off her tuffet. I have wondered about what… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I think humor is the social use. You can put anything in it. I think - yes, I speak heavily in analogies… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I have nothing against Canada. I think that Canadians might know the secret to all existence, but to us it just comes… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say,… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Let me put it this way: I don't feel as settled as I look. I think that's true of everyone, probably. Except… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I do want to get married. It's a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos--you should wait until you come… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
He also tried to block the doorway when she left him. My mother ducked under his arm, ran to her car, and… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I think the rule of thumb should be this: if you preface a sentence about a friend with the phrase, 'I love… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“Names I am most commonly called by telemarketers: Simone, Slain, Siobhan, Flo, Stacey, Susan, Slater, Leanne, and Slow (Yes, my parents named me "Slow".… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure how the ponies happened, though I have an inkling: “Can I get you anything?” I’ll say, getting up from a dinner… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“If I could just get my partner to see me how she used to - to fall in love with me all over again… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled,… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“Shortly after this exchange my roommate suggested we start throwing water balloons at the construction workers. Not really at them because, I know, I… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
When it seems impossible that a deep connection with another person could just go away instead of changing form. It seems impossible that you… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
