Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.
Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.
Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.
This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.