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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

“She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who…

— Emily Gould

To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max.…

— Emily Gould

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my…

— Emily Gould

“Existential angst was far, far above her pay grade.”

— Emily Gould

“As a child I was a little bit disgusted and embarrassed to learn about the facts of life, and did not immediately…

— Emily Gould

I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them,…

— Emily Gould

Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

— Emily Gould

I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

— Emily Gould