” All you need is the willingness to create something that is authentic and true and moving you, something that lifts you out of your human experience and into another, something that make sense of the past, clears your perception of the future, makes you experience the same emotions you did when you first fell in love or learned to let go or felt completely at awe or inspired or at peace.

If you are looking for permission to do what you love, if you are seeking the confidence to pursue what you would like to spend your days doing, what you are really asking for is whether or not you are good enough to be worth people’s time.

People want to hear stories that sound like their own. They want to read work that meets them precisely where they are. They want to collect and consume that which makes them feel understood. They want to see outside of them a little piece of what’s within them, and the only way you can create that for other people is to pull out a sliver of your soul, and put it on paper.

THAT’S ALL ”