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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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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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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The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.
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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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People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
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Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?
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Beware of politicians who tell you they'll do all these wonderful things for you for only a small tax increase. Those tax increases are never as small as you might imagine, and the benefits are always smaller than promised and/or imagined.
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Deadpool is a hero that you want to love.
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Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
