When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.

Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.