Emily Gould Quotes

• 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 does as you turn the pages of a novel. I would be lying if I said I was a different person now. I am the same person. I would do it all again.

  Emily Gould

  Lying, Hurtful, Doe

  Emily Gould (2010). “And the Heart Says Whatever”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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

  Emily Gould

  Book, Addresses, Might

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Emily Gould

  Writing, Being Real, Fiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Emily Gould

  Thinking, People, Ambassadors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Emily Gould

  Thinking, Lawyer, Valuable

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Emily Gould

  Writing, People, Imagine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.

  Emily Gould

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 evaluate
  your work based on how much they relate to it, so it’s like, well, who’s
  the narcissist?

  Emily Gould

  Writing, Men, People

  "Who's the narcissist" by Eryn Loeb, therumpus.net. May 11, 2010.

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

  Emily Gould

  Meaningful, Marketing, Fiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 of your own experiences and your own life.

  Emily Gould

  People, Feelings, Details

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.

  Emily Gould

  Meaningful, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Emily Gould

  Beach, Book, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 this person, it's good for my career," and so they get someone at the publishing house to do it, or they copy something from the press release. People write their own blurbs, absolutely, some huge percentage of the time.

  Emily Gould

  Writing, Publishing House, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Emily Gould

  Thinking, Earth, Humans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Emily Gould

  Self, Fearless, Genius

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