289 Quotes by Sloane Crosley

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

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

For me, nothing brings out my ‘born yesterday’ idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

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

I can’t see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor’s appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

We’ve come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you’ve been tagged in somebody else’s photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.

Sometimes we don’t know what we want until we don’t get it.

I do want to get married. It’s a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos – you should wait until you come across something you want on your body for the rest of your life instead of just wandering into a tattoo parlor on some idle Sunday and saying, ‘I feel like I should have one of these suckers by now. I’ll take a thorny rose and a “MOM” anchor, please. No, not that one – the big one.