Emily Gould
Emily Gould is an American writer, novelist, essayist, blogger, and publisher born on October 13, 1981, in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Gould attended Montgomery Blair High School before going on to study at Kenyon College and later at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. Her writing career has taken several forms: she worked as an editor at Gawker, the influential media website, and has produced novels, short stories, essays, and children's writing alongside her blogging work. That range across forms and formats has been a consistent feature of her output, moving between personal and fictional modes without settling into a single lane.
Beyond her own writing, Gould has also worked on the publishing side of the book world. She is co-owner, together with Ruth Curry, of Emily Books, an independent e-bookstore. The venture reflects a sustained engagement with literary culture that goes beyond producing her own work — she has also played a role in how other writers' books reach readers. Her work across fiction, essays, short stories, and children's writing points to a career built on versatility rather than specialization in any one genre.
Quotes by Emily Gould
I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.
Maybe she had assumed that what she and Sam had was veering in a permanent direction because they were at an age when people got married. She thought suddenly of how often during their relationship they’d found themselves surrounded by other couples, functioning as a unit and finding that it was easier to do so. Because couples were what society wanted, what it was built for. But maybe they hadn’t simply been moving toward anything, maybe they had simply been coasting on inertia.
I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they’re arguing about something that doesn’t exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.
Amy had always thought she was too vain and selfish to seriously contemplate suicide, also too afraid of pain. She realized now that when she’d thought that, she hadn’t understood how painful existence could get. It could get so painful, it turned out, that any other kind of pain began to seem preferable. She felt ridiculous thinking these goth-teenager thoughts, but they were real.
But she was too scared, or too busy, or too distracted, or just too tired, to do what was necessary to make her dreams come true.
I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.
To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don’t care about them at all.
Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.