My name is Ashley and writing makes me happy. As does - books, cold weather, night lights, good music, family, love, baggy t-shirts, warm blankets, moonlight and the sound of rain. 

"A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wander at it." -Ian McEwan
                                                               
"A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called 'leaves') imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time - proof that humans can work magic." -Carl Sagan

"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words." -William H. Gass