I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous