Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read..

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them..

The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could di….

I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away from..