Marie Calloway

The second guy I met on the Internet was Tom, who I dated for around 6 months, which is by far the…

— Marie Calloway

What i'm trying to get at is that to me nothing felt glamorous or exciting or sexually liberating about it. I also…

— Marie Calloway

There's just something "off" about equating the act of spending three years writing a book with the act of someone exploiting themselves…

— Marie Calloway

I seem to have made my friends proud of me/proud to know me. I also feel I've learned and grown a lot…

— Marie Calloway

Obviously this all gets tricky/complicated when your writing reveals so much of your private/intimate life, and the nature of writing on the…

— Marie Calloway

Basically, I feel inspired by any artist that seems to want to introduce the world to their likes and perspective rather than…

— Marie Calloway

The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing.

— Marie Calloway

One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I…

— Marie Calloway

I've gotten a lot of exposure for my writing. My writing blog has gotten over 1000 unique hits since the Observer piece…

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I want to say that of course I want my writing to be read and discussed by as many people as possible,…

— Marie Calloway

Besides the money aspect, I guess I was curious about sex work. In the way that most people are, but also because…

— Marie Calloway

Towards the end of it [working as an escort girl] I could feel myself drifting towards a liquor habit and I had…

— Marie Calloway

I'm not very close to my parents. My stepfather (in my opinion) was very emotionally abusive when I was growing up and…

— Marie Calloway

I will be a commodity, and I will be in demand and valuable.

— Marie Calloway

As an adult I've connected a lot with men over the Internet. Nothing seems really notable (pre-"Adrien Brody") except I went to…

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I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew…

— Marie Calloway

I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it…

— Marie Calloway

I was a social recluse for most of my life, and so a lot of relationships I've been in have been formed…

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I think in general in my teens I had a lot of crushes on men on the Internet, most notably Momus since…

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I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and…

— Marie Calloway

I used LiveJournal frequently, almost daily, since ~age 13 until ~18. I kept a personal diary there. I also participated in various…

— Marie Calloway

I admire Joyce Maynard a lot, specifically her memoir "At Home in the World." Her writing is beautiful and fascinating and seemed…

— Marie Calloway

I often feel like that with the way I portray myself I come off as looking much worse than any of the…

— Marie Calloway

I think it's sad that we live in a world where men can steal and distribute and publish photos of women without…

— Marie Calloway

I guess that my opinion of writing about real people is informed by defenses of Joyce Maynard's memoir, that the experiences were…

— Marie Calloway