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Choire Sicha Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“I remember what it was like before social media and it was kind of boring.”
— Choire Sicha, How I'm Making It
Tagged: Social Media, The Digital Age, humor
“But you get the sites you want to visit, and in the end, no matter how much venture capital they have, they'll continue to exist because of ads.”
— Choire Sicha, Scratch
Tagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money
“If you ever want to see something sad, ask a room full of freelance writers about their tax strategies. It's like asking a pack of baby kittens about space travel.”
— Choire Sicha, Scratch
Tagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, Quote of the Moment
“We had someone whose full-time job was saying, "How do we make this into a business?”
— Choire Sicha, How I'm Making It
Tagged: How to be a writer, Career, Writing, Money
“I always wanted to be a writer when I was younger, but I didn't think it was ever possible, and so I didn't take it seriously or actually even really think about it. This happens, I think, in a lot of fields, including fashion and media and TV, things that seem exciting and far away when you're young.”
— Choire Sicha, How I'm Making It
Tagged: How to be a writer, Career, Writing, Artists
“There was, for a while, a very large and very famous city.”
— Choire Sicha, Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City
Tagged: New York City, first lines of books
“People were as easy to misinterpret as they were to read.”
— Choire Sicha, Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City
Tagged: Reading People
“Job quitters are the happiest people around.”
— Choire Sicha, Some Advice for Young People
Tagged: Career, Happiness
“I was an art dealer for a number of years, for a friend, and after that I was blogging for fun on the side. I was co-writing a blog with a friend who lived on the West Coast and learning how to write by writing in public — which, actually, I sort of take for granted now. That was a new thing, then. We were just sort of messing around on the internet, which was a kind of quiet place.”
— Choire Sicha, How I'm Making It
Tagged: How to be a writer, Career, Writing, Artists
“This is boring, but the greatest thing for me — and I see this with young writers sometimes, that they don't have — is I had to write constantly. It was very good on a sentence-by-sentence level and at establishing voice. Most of voice is just a series of crutches applied regularly, and when you're writing eight-12 posts a day, you really double down on that. What I see with young writers now is that they don't have these horrible blogging jobs — which is for the best, probably — but they also are hesitant. Their voices aren't fully developed. They aren't put on the spot so they don't develop as quickly, probably.”
— Choire Sicha, How I'm Making It
Tagged: How to be a writer, Career, Writing
“Nick Denton initially hired me to write for a site he was about to launch called Flesh Bot, which was intended to be a site about adult things. I did not want to do that. [Laughs] And fortunately, Elizabeth Spiers retired before that site launched so he instead was like, "Oh, you're here. Just take over Gawker when Elizabeth leaves." We got paid $24,000 a year and we were supposed to write eight or 12 posts a day, I can't remember now.”
— Choire Sicha, How I'm Making It
Tagged: How to be a writer, Career, Writing, Money, Writers and money, Gawker
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