“I remember what it was like before social media and it was kind of boring.”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.comTagged: Social Media, The Digital Age, humor
“We had someone whose full-time job was saying, "How do we make this into a business?”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.comTagged: How to be a writer, Career, Writing, Money
“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…”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.comTagged: How to be a writer, Career, Writing, Money, Writers and 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 youn…”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.comTagged: 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…”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.comTagged: How to be a writer, Career, Writing
“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.…”— Choire Sicha, fashionista.comTagged: How to be a writer, Career, Writing, Artists