“Whenever you write about what you think is the most embarrassing thing about you, the darkest secret, the one thing you fear other people may find out and laugh at you about; whenever you write about that aspect of yourself, then you will reach millions. You will find out it is the same for them, and in saying it of yourself you will say it for them, and they will respond and recognize it and they will be grateful to you and love you for saying what they were afraid to say and thought they must bear alone.”
Mark van Doren
