A biography for Rachel Sklarhasn’t been written yet.
“I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.”
“I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.”
“'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.”
“New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.”
“I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.”
“I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket automatically in search of it.”
“My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.”
“The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.”
“To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'”
“I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.”
“I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.”
“Is there anything about the JonBenet Ramsey case that isn't weird and disturbing?”
“When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.”
“Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.”
“I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.”
“I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.”
“Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.”
“What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?”
“Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.”
“I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.”