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Emily Gould Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“Who might I have become if this hadn’t been how I’d begun?”
— Emily Gould, Replaying My Shame
Tagged: Shame, Public Shaming, Gawker
“Though back in 2011 we might not have been able to articulate this, or appreciate how ambitious it was, we also wanted to create an alternative literary canon, counter to the one we’d been taught in school and had witnessed forming when we worked in corporate book publishing.”
— Emily Gould, EmilyBooks is closing down...
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes
“Being a New Yorker, probably more than being a resident of any other place on Earth, is a choice.”
— Daniel Featherstone Essays by Rumaan Alam, Emily Gould, Brit Bennett, Regina Porter, Lynn Steger Strong, and Jenny Zhang, The Cut, The 8 Million Reasons to Love New York
Tagged: New York, New Yorker, resident
“Being an extremely social, sociable, accessible person should not be the price of being a professional writer, but for women it almost inevitably is.”
— Emily Gould, Scratch
Tagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money
“Not only am I a phony, so is everyone I know!”
— Emily Gould, Scratch
Tagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money
“When I commend her on avoiding the standardized addiction-and-recovery story arc, she shrugs off the compliment. ‘That’s what everyone says, but I’d so much rather have that story arc.”
— Emily Gould, Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell Is Still Alive
Tagged: Addiction, rehab, Before and after
“While working on her book, Marnell had stuck to a regimen: waking up at a normalish hour, Barry’s Bootcamp, prepackaged cut veggies and half-sandwiches from Starbucks and 7/11, Adderall just to focus and not to get high, a few drinks with friends, and maybe a little coke, ‘but not, like, lines of it, everybody just gives me bumps,’ and then no sleep aids except Ambien and nonnarcotic antidepressant Trazodone.”
— Emily Gould, Cat Marnell Is Still Alive
Tagged: Addiction, Writing, How to be a writer
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