That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

One is but a shade of the other.

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from inside out. What if one day these stories become something stronger, more real, than fairy tales?

Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.