Able Quote by Junot Diaz

So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.

— Natalie Goldberg

The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was…

— Natalie Goldberg

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Cancer was nothing more than a chapter in my life’s story. It would never be my life’s story.”

— Robin Roberts

One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures…

— John Green

Writing about cancer is always a challenge for me because it hits so close to home.

— Suleika Jaouad

You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody…

— Regina Spektor

I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it…

— Lurlene McDaniel

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

— Meg Rosoff

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years…

— John Green

In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle down and…

— Natalie Goldberg