“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… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than writing a whole bunch of reports. What's in your head does not count, not for sculpture, not for… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“When you write, you believe in something no one else can see. You spend lots of time committed to a project for which there… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I’m here. Help. Please find me. — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self. — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“I loved the idea of a subversive world where mental illness was defined as just another version of normal, and education was how you… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“I giggled and he took it very seriously and wrote everything down. I thought it was going too well, I was doing too well,… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“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,… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to have clarity,” he said, “to take a clear position.” — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“Don’t get sucked in, Dave was always saying to me. Kind of like Helder’s container idea: Notice everything, but don’t buy into it. Hold… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“I was going to be in therapy for a long, long time. I wasn’t even a sentence yet. But I had some syllables, some… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“As children, we are profoundly loyal to our parents, and to their pain: I wanted to be related to my mom, not ruined by… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“The railing of the balcony was cold but the blue-black night air was so warm in October, in Florida, it felt as if it… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“I think everyone has one day like this, and some people have more than one. It's the day of the accident, the midlife crisis,… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“Find ways to develop self-awareness so you know what you do well... you do a thousand things brilliantly, and if you don't know what… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“Off and on for many years, I tried to write a book about my childhood. I’d bring chapters to workshop, to writing group, and… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“In childhood, it’s our parents who give us our standards for experience: “Here’s an inch,” they say. “And this is a foot.” And a… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
