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I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

- Marya Hornbacher
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I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.

Were I to put myself on... one of those online dating things, I would not include in my profile that I'm regularly hospitalized for psychosis. But I do know that when I get really bad, there is a place for me to go where I will feel better.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?'

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I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.