I wrote this book on subways and on airplanes and in between setups while I shot a television show. “I wrote this book after my kids went to sleep. … The truth is writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.”Īnd Amy Poehler definitely didn’t write her book in a log cabin in Big Sur. They perpetuate a romantic idea that writing is some beautiful experience that takes place in an architectural room filled with leather novels and chai tea. The lie about how easy it is or how hard it is. In just the first page, Amy Poehler is in-your-face-honest about how hard writing a book is. But with that I decided I also needed a masters degree in creative writing and a log cabin to write in – essentially, I came up with a couple of big roadblocks for myself to procrastinate becoming what I imagine a real writer looks like. So recently, and it could have something to do with all the memoirs I’ve been reading, I’ve decided I want to be a writer. (The rest of the book is really great too.) So today I want to share with you few big nuggets from the introduction alone of Amy Poehler’s Yes Please. In fact, I hadn’t even finished the introduction of the book when I texted all of my girlfriends and told them they had to read Yes Please immediately. I practically highlighted her entire intro describing the creative process of writing a book as pretty much torture. But Amy Poehler’s Yes Please kind of changed my life. I’ve read Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl, Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Having Fun Without Me, Kelly Oxford’s Everything is Perfect When You’re A Liar, as mentioned Tina Fey’s Bossypants. Kathleen here, and lately I’ve been into reading memoirs of funny ladies, who seem too young to be writing memoirs. I went from loving Leslie Knope to admiring Amy Poehler. Then I read Tina Fey’s Bossypants where she dedicated an entire chapter to her best friend Amy Poehler where she described her as a hilarious and talented badass who stood up to the boys in the writing room. Leslie Knope is a city official for the Pawnee Parks & Rec department and she is enthusiastic, honest, optimistic, proud, and kind.

I first fell in love with Amy Poehler when I fell in love with Leslie Knope (played by Amy Poehler) on Parks & Rec.

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