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Cat Marnell Quotes

Total quotes: 28
“I knew I was going to be annoying. But I was thinking of the narrators I like most in this world, like Cher from ‘Clueless.’ Once I let go of what I thought a book should be, that’s when I found this voice that was grounded in pop music. I love pop music. I love Britney Spears albums.”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell lost her job and almost overdosed on heroin. Then, she wrote a memoir.
Tagged: Authenticity, Writing, How to be a writer, High brow vs low brow
“I have everything now, except hair. And a man.”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell Is Still Alive
Tagged: Addiction, beauty, rehab
“Look, we can’t all be Joan Didion.”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell lost her job and almost overdosed on heroin. Then, she wrote a memoir.Pi
Tagged: Pills, Addiction, Writing, Writers, Artists, Joan Didion, Quote of the Moment
“GET THE HELP YOU NEED. YOU ONLY HAVE ONE LITTLE LIFE. TURN IT AROUND.”
— Cat Marnell, HOPE CHANGES EVERYTHING: The Thai Rehab that Turned My(and Pete Doherty's!) Disastrous Goddamn Life Around!
Tagged: Addiction, Second Chances, Yolo, Thai rehab
“Symmetry, Instagram, Kardashians – it's over! Money is over. Rich people need to get weird again, like Diana Vreeland used to be. Like, why don't you quilt yourself a coat of white monkey fur and meander around your apartment?”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell: Meet the Internet's Favorite Drug-Addled Beauty Expert
Tagged: Writing, Artists, Creativity, Trump
“I went in and out of consciousness as I had sex for the first time -- on a bath mat! And it wasn't rape or anything. I mean I'm still going in and out of consciousness during sex today! I always take my sleeping pills too early.”
— Cat Marnell, How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
Tagged: Drugs, Alcohol, Sex
“The economy isn't my thing (though I have been profiled by the Wall Street Journal).”
— Cat Marnell, How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
Tagged: Money, the wall street journal
“Here’s a life lesson for you kids: it’s much easier to go through something upsetting when you’re on drugs. The more intense the drug, the more you forget your problems! It’s basic science, really.”
— Cat Marnell, How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
Tagged: Drugs, Addiction
“There aren't any big words in [my] book... And it's not that I don't know those words. I just don't talk like that.”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell: Meet the Internet's Favorite Drug-Addled Beauty Expert
Tagged: Writing, Books, Quote of the Moment, cat marnell, how to murder your life, jane pratt, cat marnell memoir, cat marnell book, drug addict beauty writer, party girls, edie sedgwick
“To me, being a beauty editor was better than being president of the United States.”
— Cat Marnell, How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
Tagged: Writers, Writing, magazines, Career
“I bought an embroidered pillow for $4,000. Then I overdosed on heroin the same day. That’ll be in my next book.”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell Pays Taxes Now
Tagged: Money, finances, Being Rich, wealthy, Drugs, Overdosing, cat marnell
“The two biggest influences in my life are magazines and addiction treatment. Those are the two main forces I’ve had looping in my brain, that have shown me how the world works.”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell lost her job and almost overdosed on heroin. Then, she wrote a memoir.
Tagged: Authenticity, Writing, How to be a writer, My aesthetic
“Everything has a face, a cute face. I want my knife to have a little blue penguin face on it. Why not? I have to look at it.”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell Is the Lifestyle Guru We Deserve
Tagged: cat marnell, beauty, Lifestyle
“It’s said that you can’t run away from your problems, but guess what, babes? Untrue. Of course you can. You can do it fabulously.”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell Is Back From the Brink
Tagged: cat marnell, Problems, Audio Books
“There’s a certain point with pop culture where I’m like: Enough, I don’t want to read about these people.”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell Is Ready for the NBA Season
Tagged: NBA, cat marnell, Pop Culture
“When I commend her on avoiding the standardized addiction-and-recovery story arc, she shrugs off the compliment. ‘That’s what everyone says, but I’d so much rather have that story arc.”
— Emily Gould, Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell Is Still Alive
Tagged: Addiction, rehab, Before and after
“I have a writer’s brain.”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell Talks Success, Love And Accidentally Turning Her Head Into A Meth Lab
Tagged: How to be a writer, Writers, Artists
“i am so lonely and feel defective like no one would ever date me or marry me and my whole career has been people getting engaged everyone talking about boyfriends and being normal and things, and it made me feel depressed and awful all of the time!”
— Cat Marnell, Why We Don't Talk About Each Other's Bodies At XoJane
Tagged: Comments section, Bodies, Depression, While everyone else was getting married
“Write like you talk. I personally like that, and that’s why I think everyone has a book in them, because everyone has had things happen to them. Don’t be fancy if that’s not who you are. Don’t worry about that. I just put in my inner monologue in and then I’d just sort of keep it and it kind of worked.”
— Cat Marnell, It happened to me: I got to talk to Cat Marnell about her debut novel, “How to Murder Your Life”
Tagged: Writing, How to be a writer, Quote of the Moment
“My tan looked fantastic! I was ready for rehab.”
— Cat Marnell, How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
Tagged: Drugs, Alcohol, Sex, rehab, Tanning, beauty
“'On our site we run stuff like, ‘Can you wear white pants when you have your period?’ and I flip out...It’s like, Shoot me in the fucking mouth. It reduces us to bodies, and I hate it. I resent how reduced the world of women is. I resent how small we allow ourselves to be.'”
— Cat Marnell, 142 Minutes With Cat Marnell
Tagged: Media, Women, feminism, Fashion
“Rehab is basically a memoir-writing workshop.”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell Is Still Alive
Tagged: rehab, Addiction, Quote of the Moment, Writing
“There are so many different types of pain and I go through so much still every day. I think the best thing you could ever do is believe or just wait for things to pass. Sometimes I listen to YouTube clips and walk around New York City yelling out ‘I am grateful for what I have!’ It works.”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell on drugs, her new memoir and the possibility of a second book
Tagged: Quote of the Moment, grateful, go to gratitude, how to save your own life, picking yourself up
“The people I’m drawn to sleep in nests of dirty clothes.”
— Cat Marnell, 142 Minutes With Cat Marnell
Tagged: Artists, Writers, How to be a writer, Addiction
“Lol listen neither of us invented this particular wheel”
— Cat Marnell, An Iconic Reminder
Tagged: Caroline Calloway, cat marnell, Cancel Culture, copying, Stay In Your Lane Susan
“Look, I couldn’t spend another summer meeting deadlines behind a computer at night when I could be on the rooftop of Le Bain looking for shooting stars and smoking angel dust with my friends and writing a book, which is what I’m doing next.”
— Cat Marnell, Drugs more fun than work
Tagged: Drugs, Addiction, Shooting Stars, Career, How to be a writer
“Then I sweetened the pot with traffic-generating stunts like snorting a huge line of Napoleon Perdis jasmine bath salts off a mirror at the office -- a joke on "bath salts" the drug, then trending worldwide -- while my delighted boss filmed me on her iPhone. A week later, Say gave me a twenty-thousand-dollar raise. Lean in, bitches!”
— Cat Marnell, How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
Tagged: Drugs, Alcohol, Sex, Career, Media, The internet, bath salts, Money
“But those are the things that God made us with so we could find other people and procreate and be healthy and bear children with our healthy bodies and love each other. They’re the most important things about being a human. And prescription drugs will take them away from you, like, ‘Oh, that’s nothing. Look how quickly! Poof! You don’t need intimacy! You don’t need sleep! You don’t need food!’ And the days and months turn into weeks and years, and all of a sudden you’re murdering your life, and you’re hallucinating rats, and ‘I’m about to lose my job and I’m 27.”
— Cat Marnell, Cat Marnell lost her job and almost overdosed on heroin. Then, she wrote a memoir.Pi
Tagged: Pills, Addiction, Loneliness
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