Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.

What was going on inside of me became louder because everything around me became quieter.

I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.