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icon caret-right instagram pinterest linkedin facebook twitter goodreads question-circle facebook circle twitter circle linkedin circle instagram circle goodreads circle pinterest circle "The fiction writer...carries a burden of sorts. You are lugging something around that seems to be part of your being, or, as we would say now, is 'hard wired' into you, so much so that you have become its container, but the only way to express it--almost literally, to bring it out--is to write it. ...It's almost involuntar
My mother would comfort, "It's just your overactive imagination." But I conjured up more than monsters hiding in my closets. Creatures breathed next to my door, and footsteps mounted the stairs. "Come home," I'd whisper into the phone, interrupting her bridge game. I'd create the situations and then plot my way out of them. When I was a teen, I imagined love in the blue eyes of the most popular boy in school. I imagined romance with my fix-up date for my junior prom. From the age of twelve, I filled journal