As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.