Stories aren’t born from nothing, but from a fleeting moment that might go unnoticed. A glance, a gesture, a word, or even a long silence… all of these can be the beginning of a story.
A writer doesn’t create a world out of thin air, but rather reshapes reality, adding to it and subtracting from it, until the story becomes closer to the truth than reality itself.
Sometimes a story is so real it seems fantastical, and sometimes imagination is the only way to tell the truth.
Between reality and imagination lies a vast expanse; it is precisely there that stories are born, and it is there that the writer finds their true voice.