I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.

With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

I thought a lot about how so many memoirs about fatness focus on weight loss; they don't focus on living with weight in a world that is rather inhospitable to it. So I knew that was the idea that was going to be most interesting and most challenging, and I like to be challenged as a writer.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.

You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about.