What Other People Call Dark And Despairing,

I Wanted To Be A Visual Artist, But I Realized I Was More Affected By What I Read Than By What I Saw. I Would Go To A Show At A Museum And Look At A Painting And Say, 'oh I Wish I Owned That,' And That Would Be The End Of My Relationship With A Painting. With A Short Story I Would Read Or With An Author I Would Discover I Could Be Haunted. It Would Affect My Mood And Affect The Way That I Saw The World. I Thought, Wow, It Would Be Amazing To Be Able To Do That.

I Was Just Struggling With My Inner Vachette And Pondering The Depths Of My Own Inhumanity.

Write Relentlessly, Until You Find Your Voice. Then, Use It.

As A Foreigner In London, I Like That There Are So Many Other Foreigners.

There Are Lots Of Things That Happen To Me That I Don't Write About.