“Anything you do fully is an alone journey.”

“Anything we fully do is an alone journey.”

“We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.”

“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.”

“Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it”

“And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.”

“I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I'll ever have.”