“He tells me, ‘Don’t write about me.’ Automatically, I say, ‘Okay.’ Only later do I think about what this means. Only later do I realize how stifling this is. Never do I set out to hurt anyone. Never do I write to be vindictive. Still, I have a story. Am I not allowed to share that? Am I not allowed…”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Writing, How to be a writer