The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

I write because I want to have more than one life.

Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.

I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.