Marie Calloway Quotes

• I want to say that of course I want my writing to be read and discussed by as many people as possible, but this is different than wanting personal, "celebrity"-like attention. I'm very introverted and sensitive and dislike being talked about, positively or negatively.

  Marie Calloway

  Writing, People, Different

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• Besides the money aspect, I guess I was curious about sex work. In the way that most people are, but also because ever since I was a teen I had read feminist writers like Dworkin and Mackinnon and the way they wrote about sex work had an enormous impact on me. Was it really as horrible as they said?

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  Sex, Impact, People

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• I will be a commodity, and I will be in demand and valuable.

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  Demand, Commodity, Valuable

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• I admire Joyce Maynard a lot, specifically her memoir "At Home in the World." Her writing is beautiful and fascinating and seemed to give me validation to the idea that I could write validly in earnest about my life with (my) very feminine point of view, and also that I could unapologetically explore the bad traits of my character (which I find to be more interesting to explore than the good traits), as well as explore other concepts that interest me like private vs public personas, age gap relationships, etc.

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  Beautiful, Home, Writing

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• Me interesa la dinámica dom femenina/sub masculina, y cómo superficialmente puede parecer una inversión total de los roles de género y tal vez incluso subversiva o algo así.

  Marie Calloway

  Males, Female, Roles

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew that I certainly was.

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  Ideas, Might, Wonder

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• I feel like people think of me as someone who really believes in a "sex as empowerment" philosophy, like Sasha Grey or something, when actually I feel like I'm much more what a lot of liberal feminists would call "sex negative" than most women I know.

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  Sex, Philosophy, Believe

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I was given almost total freedom to read/write/look at whatever I wanted. I wonder a lot about how my past experiences, particularly my negative childhood (home life and being severely bullied/ostracized throughout school) as formed my/my thoughts/my writing, though I should also note those things were far from the only thing that had an impact on me/my writing.

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  Home, Writing, School

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• Basically, I feel inspired by any artist that seems to want to introduce the world to their likes and perspective rather than trying to shape their interests and point of view to fit better into the world around them.

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  Artist, Views, Perspective

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• Admiro el narcisismo en Momus y en otros que lo "poseen" y lo utilizan como una forma de explorar ideas o a sí mismos y también como una forma de humor. No me considero narcisista, pero sin duda soy increíblemente egocéntrica. Supongo que me pregunto si ver el mundo a través de la lente de uno mismo es necesariamente menos válido que otras formas de pensar/ver.

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  Thinking, Self, Ideas

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• There's often times a big difference between what you actually thought/felt in a situation and what you think you thought/felt. You have to do a lot of work to make your thoughts/feelings possible to be understood by other people. It's very draining, though also cathartic.

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  Pensamiento, Diferencias, Personas

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• I don't have much to say about honesty. All that I feel about it that people don't discuss as far as I know is how much effort it is to create truly honest writing, in my opinion. It requires a lot of thinking and effort.

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  Honesty, Writing, Thinking

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• I used LiveJournal frequently, almost daily, since ~age 13 until ~18. I kept a personal diary there. I also participated in various "LiveJournal communities". At the risk of sounding patronizing or something, I see LiveJournal and now Tumblr as wonderful because they give young girls ways to interact with eachother and learn and talk about new interests, ideas etc as well as support eachother emotionally.

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  Girl, Ideas, Giving

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• Sin embargo, reconozco que la memoria dista mucho de ser infalible. Si creo que no puedo describir algo con precisión, lo omito. También hago cosas como escribir "habló de..." en lugar de escribir citas directas. Pero, en general, creo que como mis relatos son mi percepción de un acontecimiento y no la verdad objetiva, tengo mucho margen de maniobra.

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  Memories, Writing, Giving

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• There's just something "off" about equating the act of spending three years writing a book with the act of someone exploiting themselves by drunkenly flashing the camera for "Girls Gone Wild" or something.

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  Chica, Libro, Escritura

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• I admire self-awareness more than probably any other quality, and I think in terms of what qualities are "good" in a person, it's a mostly subjective opinion, so I can't see a reason to think that self-absorption is inherently a bad thing.

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  Thinking, Self, Quality

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• What i'm trying to get at is that to me nothing felt glamorous or exciting or sexually liberating about it. I also think the amount of money you can make escorting is exaggerated (it wasn't uncommon for me to see ads for escorts for 40-60$/hr where I live.)

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  Thinking, Trying, Escorting

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• I often feel like that with the way I portray myself I come off as looking much worse than any of the other characters. I guess it might also be worth noting that anyone I've had as a main character in a story I've written has had full knowledge that I am a writer who writes about the people in her life.

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  Writing, Character, People

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• I'm not very close to my parents. My stepfather (in my opinion) was very emotionally abusive when I was growing up and there were a lot of other issues I don't feel comfortable talking about publicly. I spent a lot of time in therapy dealing with these issues though, and I feel i'm finally starting to move past them.

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  Growing Up, Moving, Past

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• Obviously this all gets tricky/complicated when your writing reveals so much of your private/intimate life, and the nature of writing on the Internet comes with a lot of focus on your "personal brand."

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  Writing, Focus, Internet

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• The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing.

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  Writing, Essentials, Feels

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I liked if I hadn't had LiveJournal in high school. I think it's interesting how blogging seems to be shaping a new generation of writers. I feel like growing up with the Internet/blogging/other structures seems to be a reason for the similarities people see in Tao Lin's writing and other young writers, rather than direct.

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  Growing Up, School, Writing

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• As an adult I've connected a lot with men over the Internet. Nothing seems really notable (pre-"Adrien Brody") except I went to London in July of 2010 and before I went I had a few men lined up to meet, two who made a large impact on me. Both were mentioned in "Adrien Brody."

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  Men, Impact, July

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• The second guy I met on the Internet was Tom, who I dated for around 6 months, which is by far the longest relationship I've ever had as an adult. We long distance dated mostly, chatting everyday for a long time on FB chat and Skype. It's hard to imagine a more genuinely caring and kind individual. I owe a lot to him.

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  Distance, Caring, Long

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• As for not getting things right: I constantly rerun social situations/conversations I experience/have throughout my head, and I'm always writing them down in notebooks or in word documents/the Internet. I feel like these habits and a generally good memory of people/the interactions I have with them (due to studying people having always been my main interest in life) have lead me to being very accurate in things I write in stories/essays.

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  Notebook, Memories, Writing

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