“I think, use my imagination, and write; therefore, I am.Every day I'm writing, I'm living. Every other day is just waiting.”

“When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.”

“All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.”

“(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.”

“Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.”

“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”