I don't just want to believe -- I do believe. In aliens and governmental conspiracies. In characters of make-believe and demons of reality. I believe beauty is both skin-deep and that it radiates from the inside. That happiness is found inside yourself and inside others. I believe in you. And I believe in me.

Writing doesn't always come naturally for me, I've found in my eighteen years of existence. But I love it, just as much as I love drag racing and softball. I love it nearly as much as I love The X-Files and Gillian Anderson. I'm not quite attached to it the way I am to David Duchovny, but close.

I've written many pieces and I can attest that it does get better. Maybe not easier, but better.

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"We all knew we were going to be writers; it just depended on what kind of writers we would be."

"But we do become writers out of an act of will, out of an act of choice; a dim, confused, ofttimes regrettable choice, perhaps, but choice nevertheless."