“Wake up! Keep waking up! Wake up more and more often!”

“It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so. It feels like something criminal. It feels like unspeakably wild sex. So, think: When you feel the overpowering need to go out and find some unspeakably wild sex, do you rush to tell your mom about it?”

“I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.”

“It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.”

“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”

“You can go a surprisingly long time without figuring out the kind of person you are and in what direction your life is taking you.”

“Everyone in the world should read this book... We should read it to learn about the world and what it means to be human. ”