Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.

No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.

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

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

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