Permission Quotes

“did the only thing I could do: I wrote. I filled journals; I wrote scores of essays; I wrote poetry; I wrote short fiction and began to make notes for a novel about an assimilated postwar family in New England trying and failing to leave their tragic past behind. None of the pieces were published⁠—I didn’t submit any of them⁠—and it didn’t matter.”
― Elissa Altman, Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create