Emily Gould Quotes
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
Quotes to Explore
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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I love science fiction.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.
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I have a lot of shoes.
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You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.
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Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission
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Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
