Fantasy Allows You To Get Past Defenses.

You Can Also Make Explicit Certain Social Problems Which, Again, Would Be Prejudged Or Not Encountered At All In Real Life, Because People Have Set Up Defenses Against It. Fantasy Allows You To Get Past Defenses.

No Matter What I Do, No Matter How Predictable I Try To Make My Life, It Will Not Be Any More Predictable Than The Rest Of The World. Which Is Chaotic.

In A Novel, I Could Submerge My Ego In A Characters And Let His Perceptions Take Over.

Having A Mother Who Had Been An Aeronautical Engineer Convinced Me That More Things Should Be Open To Women.

Everything In My Life That I Value Has Been Gained At The Cost Of Not Saying What I Really Think And Saying What They Want Me To Say.