It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with them while you're out walking. If the answers surprise you, you know it's the character speaking and not you.

What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?

There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.