Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done.

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual