Sloane Crosley Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.

  Sloane Crosley

  Writing, Two, Voice

  "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels and clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

• The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.

  Sloane Crosley

  Home, Writing, Night

• I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

  Sloane Crosley

  Writing, Weekend, Vacation

• I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't feel like that while I'm writing. But I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Growing Up, Writing

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts to the Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

• Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.

  Sloane Crosley

  Jobs, Writing, Strange

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts to the Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

• I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what's going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing.

  Sloane Crosley

  Writing, Thinking, People

• In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Writing, Cutting

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts To The Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

• Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

  Sloane Crosley

  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

• 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

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

• Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.

  Sloane Crosley

  Crazy, Character, Writing

  "Sloane Crosley Talks About Writing Her First Novel, The Clasp". Interview with A.M. Homes, www.vulture.com. May 31, 2015.

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