“I am not in control of how my characters live their lives, only in writing it down.”

“My characters tell me how they feel about other characters and events and they demand that I write it down for them.”

“Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.”

“I can only control my actions, not their reactions," Senna replied. "But I have to live with both.”

“Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.”

“I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other way, inside. And it was so clear to me what I was doing. It was suddenly perfectly clear. I understood, I need to write. Live here, in my words, and my head. I need to go inside, that’s all. No big, complicated, difficult thing. I just need to go in reverse. And not worry about what to write about, but just write. Or, if I’m going to worry about what to write, then do this worrying on paper, so at least I’m writing and will have a record of the anxiety.”