Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.
But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.
Start telling the stories that only you can tell.
Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes.
People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.
It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.