Max Allan: "What kind of a writer are you going to become if you are constantly getting on plans and putting on eye shadow?" He says there's no guarantee that if you go straight into the fire, anything will happen. A lot of what you're doing is just trying to represent your writing with your body and your face, he adds.
Heather Havrilesky writes the Ask Polly and Ask Molly newsletters. Her latest book is Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage.
“It’s not a good story when you're bullshitting people. I didn't want this book to feel like bullshit…. I wanted to show enough that you could feel reassured that it's normal to feel conflicted about your life and the people in it. It's normal to feel anxious about how much people love you. And it's normal to feel avoidant about how much people love you. It's normal to feel like a failure in the face of trying to stay with someone over the course of your entire life.”
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