Amy Poehler Opens Up About Her New Book 'Yes Please' And Her Favorite Story To Write

Actress Amy Poehler can add published author to her resume after her first book, Yes Please, hit shelves on Oct. 28. The Parks and Recreation star is opening up about her new book, her favorite story to write and why she chose the title.

Amy is known for her hilarious time on Saturday Night Live, which she covers in the book, as well as her NBC series Parks and Recreation. Now she is an author and her stories range from funny real-life stories to life advice on an array of topics including motherhood.

So what inspired the actress to write this book? "I wanted to try to write a book from somebody who felt like they were trying to negotiate a lot of things in her life. There's the stereotypical version of that, which is 'WORKING WOMAN WITH SO MUCH ON HER PLATE,'" Amy told Entertainment Weekly about her inspiration.

"But truly, women especially are playing so many different roles and doing so many different things. I'm kind of too old to be cute and too young to be able to look back on my 40 years of show business [laughs]. That's why it's not a typical memoir, it's essays and real and fake advice. I wanted it to feel like a scrapbook or a journal of my life so far."

The name of the book is simple and resonates with the Mean Girls star. "It's something I say a lot, and it's also kind of a motto or a theory I subscribe to. Saying "yes" has gotten me a lot of places in my life. As I've gotten older, I've added the "please" because I realize when you say "yes" to something, it doesn't mean you're doing it alone," the 43-year-old actress told the publication.

Even though the star revealed that she enjoyed writing the whole book, her favorite part to write focused around her time in Chicago at Second City and ImprovOlympic where she started the theater at UCB.

"I had a lot of fun writing the UCB history because it reminded me not only of a time when I was young and skinny and got a lot more sleep, it also reminded me of a time I felt really proud of-the big risks that we took because we were young and didn't know any better," the Baby Mama star revealed.

So what else can you expect to read in Yes Please? According to the Huffington Post, some the best stories include when Amy was watching Law & Order, which she loves, and her water broke, making the "bam bam" noise and the year when Amy was totally stoned called, "Obligatory Drug Stories, or Lessons I Learned on Mushrooms."