3 Quotes & Sayings By Emily Witt

Emily Witt is a writer living in Brooklyn. She is the author of two collections of short stories, The Harmless People and A Thousand, One Hundred and Seventeen. She was awarded a Whiting Writers' Award for her story "The Last Weekend" in Best American Short Stories 2009. Her work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Granta, A Public Space, Ploughshares and other publications Read more

She was a 2011-2012 Whiting Writers' Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University.

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The body, I started to learn, was not a secondary entity. The mind contained very few truths that the body withheld. There was little of import in an encounter between two bodies that would fail to be revealed rather quickly. The epistolary run up to the date only rarely revealed the truth of a man's good humor or introversion, his anxiety or social grace. Until the bodies were introduced, seduction was only provisional. Emily Witt
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It was the same old question, whether a declaration of purpose might protect you from failure. Emily Witt