Think of how much we stress about living up to our "potential," and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in short, stops them from living the…

- Emily Susan Rapp

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot…

- Emily Susan Rapp

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything. Period.

- Emily Susan Rapp

It's terrible to know that no matter how you try to help your child, his condition will worsen.

- Emily Susan Rapp

People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

- Emily Susan Rapp

I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it.

- Emily Susan Rapp

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the s…

- Emily Susan Rapp

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

- Emily Susan Rapp

I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.

- Emily Susan Rapp