No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.
Joshua MohrMy father deprived me of any truths about himself. He died without ever letting me know who he truly was. I only knew his facades, basically. And it breaks my heart that he never trusted me enough to tell me the truth.
Joshua MohrMy tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.
Joshua MohrIt was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf.
Joshua MohrMemoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just write a chapter and that's it. You must constantly return to it. You must dote on it. And even if it's saying something ugly about who you are, you have to find the poetry in it. You have to find the poetry in yourself.
Joshua Mohr