Sloane Crosley Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.”

“There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.”

“When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.”

“I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.”

“I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.”

“I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.”

“The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.”

“The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere.”

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

“As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And your liver. Still, the cleanse has recalibrated my definition of a splurge.”