Ayelet Waldman Quotes

I started as a mommy blogger, and it's been really great.

I am a blogger - that is an amazing thing for me, because it captures a moment in time every day.

I will not stop my blog.

When I started my first blog years ago, I just wanted to share my perspective. For a long time, models had been these mute pretty faces - and I wanted to have a voice.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?

I think blogging, by and large, is basically therapy. And I'm sure, and I know, that there are some terrific bloggers and some legitimate bloggers. But I think, by and large, a huge percentage of people who are blogging are doing it for self-therapy.

I never really thought I would make a blog myself.

The reason I created a YouTube channel was because I can connect on a more personal level and be more detailed, within 10 minutes, of my life and what I do on a daily basis.

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.

I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.

I'm yelling in my mind as I write a tweet.

If you think I'm just another pretty face, read my Facebook updates, read my articles, read the interviews I've done and judge for yourself.

Stay true to yourself, engage with your followers, and ignore the critics.

When I first started blogging, I kept it a secret from my friends and then started to show a few people, and it snowballed from there.

I've used the Internet since I was in high school - it was my tool for self-promotion.

The funny thing is that I used to be a blogger, but it wasn't known as 'blogging' at that time. This was in the '99/2000 time frame.

I found social media was a way for me to open up and show the world who I was and also keep my name out there.

I feel like my story just proves how important not only social media is, but how important it is to be your authentic self. Because when you're really truly your authentic self, the right people will find you. And when they find you, it will be for exactly who you are.

My background isn't in social software; it's in online community, social networks, personal publishing, blogging, self-expression on the Web. I got on the Internet in the 1980s, and the magic moment for me arose from my being a literature geek, especially Dante and Shakespeare.

Communicating and being loud is a big part of my game.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end up saying peculiar things like 'I'm black and I'm proud.' I write so I don't end up as a set of slogans and clichés.