"It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride."
"the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words evoke pictures and something altogether new is created, something different from the limits of my own skills and imagination. Something that is a marriage between your heart, mind, and body - and mine."
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Source: Rebecca Wells (2009). “Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A”, p.9, Harper Collins
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