“So many students tell me they feel they cannot write about their lives without feeling superficial or egotistical. I tell them if they feel that way, their reader will also feel that way. The key is seeing what is important, what is vulnerable, what could break apart with the lightest touch.
I guess what I want to tell you (which is to say, what I want to tell myself) is that we should get our hands dirty. We should write the things about ourselves and others that we never thought we could. We should not be silent in our quiet rooms and offices. We should hold our words in our bare hands.” - Matthew Siegel
from Letters in the Mail
(via ahleena)
