“I honestly had no fucking clue what I was doing, I just made it up as I went along.”— Amy Kaufman, themuse.jezebel.com
“I just wrote the truth, and it made me feel better. So I wrote more. I felt even better. After two years of telling the truth on the page, as I know it, I've written an entire book and it helped reshape my view on life, my work, my body, my family, and, most importantly, myself.”— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com
“Finally, there came a time when I decided to ignore all the advice I had read and do the only thing I know how to do, which is write. I wrote what I felt like writing, when I felt like writing, how I felt like writing. I jumped all over the place. None of my chapters had numbers. I didn’t take notes…”— Roxane Gay, nanowrimo.org