American - Writer | August 3, 1978 -
At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.
Sloane Crosley
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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.
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I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.
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As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.
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The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere.
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In general, I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.
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It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.
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Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.
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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.
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I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.
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I am starting to like L.A., but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to me. I have been to many foreign cities where I didn't have to acclimatize as much as I did to L.A.
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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.
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