Writing a book is exactly like love. You don’t hold back. You give it everything you have. If it doesn’t work out, you’re heartbroken, but you move forward and start again anyway. You have to.
You don’t hold some of yourself in reserve. It’s all or nothing. There are no guarantees.

“Mental illness didn’t really change people. It just made them more of who they …”

“I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost stic…”

“You don’t have to have clarity,” he said, “to take a clear position.”

“I was going to be in therapy for a long, long time. I wasn’t even a sentence ye…”