Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.
Sloane CrosleyThe nursery rhyme ends when a spider comes along and frightens Miss Muffet straight off her tuffet. I have wondered about what kind of lesson this is for a young girl. If you're eating your curds and whey and a spider comes along, I don't think there's anything wrong with picking up a newspaper, smashing it, and going back to your breakfast.
Sloane CrosleyThe world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere.
Sloane CrosleyI don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.
Sloane Crosley