Sloane Crosley Quotes

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.'

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

Years of my life were lived knowing that I'd get a book out of them one day.

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.

Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.

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 songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

The challenge in fiction is to write a terrific story. The challenge in journalism is to communicate solid, objective information. The challenge in creative non-fiction is to do it both and to do it well.

The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21.

I write about personal experiences.