There's always something uncool about what I do.
If you build a life around an identity that springs from your own imagination, is it ever inauthentic?
In the U.S. we have the mentality that you can make it on your own.
I feel like the more serious a life event is that you share on social media, the more ridiculous it sort of becomes, the more you sort of self-trivialize.
What was so comforting was that the more I started being honest on my blog, the more people responded.
A lot of people think I hang around Cambridge as this Hogwarts-obsessed Anglophile looking for anyone with a British accent.
I think it would be hard to find an American who, during their first week at Cambridge didn't genuinely feel like it was fairy tale.
I know people think that having a regular publisher is more prestigious, there is even this idea that self-publishing is a result of being snubbed. But self-publishing really appeals to me.
I don't dispute the fact that I ordered too many mason jars. 1,200 Mason jars in a studio apartment is not the hill that I will die on.
If I'm not ready to open something up to the scrutiny of the internet, I don't write about it.
The idea that my life would be something I shared with the public wasn't just something that I assumed - it was something that I actively wanted. I still want it.
People care about such bizarre and specific things about me.
With everything that's happened since I was exposed as a scammer, I can't lie, it's been good for business. Now I can sell my story for way more than my original book deal ever was.
I am more respectful of the parasocial relationship of myself and my fans than anything Damien Hirst does between himself and his collectors.
I love fame. I love being written about. I don't really mind if people think I'm a bad writer, if they don't understand my weird Instagram performance art or they find my long captions annoying. That's part of the package of being in the public eye, and honestly I find it exhilarating.
I wanted to create art that fit the Pinterest interior aesthetic, because that is so of the internet age and my platform, my celebrity.
You know, when I was little, I actually did want to be an actor. But I only wanted to play myself. So Instagram is sort of perfect for me.
It's not that I don't experience absolute sadness, which is very unentertaining, but I think - when I'm being really honest about myself - I think there's, like, a really performative streak in my personality.
I spend a lot of time unpacking the pain surrounding my addiction - both my own and the pain I caused other people.
My life isn't going to stop because my father's dead and my trolls won't stop and people won't stop writing about me.
