Sloane Crosley Quotes About Essays
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Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey.
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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.
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I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.
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I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.
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