you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.