"Something I’d like to tell the writers just beginning, who worry if they can make a go of it under..."

“Something I’d like to tell the writers just beginning, who worry if they can make a go of it under duress: I have written my best work on my knees, under deadline, or in the throes of environmental anxiety, post-partum-depression, loss, failure. The drive to make art rarely comes from a place of ease and comfort.”

- An essay I wrote for The Huffington Post on art and the family narrative:  (via mayhewbergman)