“People who grew up before the blogosphere, I just think that your brain is wired differently. I feel like in some ways my sensibility is aligned with people twenty years older than me than somebody six years younger. Because there was a sort of cutoff.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsYearsBrainGrewSixGrew UpTwentiesSensibility Author:Meghan Daum
“I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in the movie business. I went there like many writers - I had a screenplay deal and I would go to these meetings and it was the typical thing. And I hated it. I was not interested in writing screenplays, actually. But I kept feeling like that was what I was supposed to do. It was just this horrible cognitive dissonance.” ThinkingFeelsWritingFeelingsHomeDealsMeetingsHorribleHatedNot InterestedTypicalMaintainingPretenseScreenplaysCognitiveMovie BusinessDissonanceCognitive Dissonance Author:Meghan Daum
“I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because] then they would kind of bear the marks of those publications.” FeelsFirstsKindBookDoneWantedFormTermBearsMarkMemoirElsewhereEssaysBest WorkPublicationEssayists Author:Meghan Daum
