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Choire Sicha Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“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
“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
“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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