“I don't understand why it's more socially acceptable to say that you are a shallow person than to just say this is not something you want to do. Especially because it's a really hard job. It's a really important job. And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.” WantShouldMindPersonsImportantHardJobsHellBlowStakesAcceptableShallowImportant JobsShallow Person Author:Meghan Daum
“What I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material has to be presented in a processed way. I'm just not interested in writing, "Hey, this is what happened to me today." You get to a place that has very little to do with your personal experience and talks about some larger idea or something in the culture. I don't think you can get to that unless you have had a lot of time to gestate and maybe if I was taking a lot of notes while stuff was going on, I wouldn't be able to get to that place as easily.” ThinkingWritingImportantTodayCultureNot InterestedEssays Author:Meghan Daum
“And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.” MindImportantHellBlow Author:Meghan Daum
