Why I Write
Updated: Sep 3
ANA'S SUNDAYS · Reflections and fragments from an author's life · SPECIAL EDITION
I write because I believe a story can open a window at the exact moment someone needs to breathe.
I am passionate about romance, cultures, and stories that allow readers to travel without leaving home. Yet that answer, while true, does not say everything. Writing is not simply choosing characters and events. It is trying to turn emotion into an experience another person can recognize, even if they live elsewhere, speak another language, or have a life completely different from mine.
When I begin imagining a narrative, I do not see a cold sequence of facts. Scenes appear like a film. I enter them, follow gestures, listen to silences, and feel the characters’ emotions. For that time, the story stops being only an idea and becomes a place where I am also living.
Stories as places of passage
We cannot always visit every place we long to know. Literature creates another way to cross borders. A book can take someone to a distant street, introduce a culture, awaken curiosity about a language, or leave an imagined landscape in memory as if it had been visited. I write because I love that possibility of travel.
Places are not only beautiful backgrounds. Streets, architecture, customs, language, family ties, and ways of showing affection influence how a story unfolds. When I research a setting, I try to understand how it participates in the characters’ lives. I want readers to see not only a destination, but the way a culture shapes decisions and feelings.
This is one reason intercultural romance interests me so deeply. When two people bring different worlds into a relationship, love must learn to listen. Family values, silences, expectations, and gestures do not always fit inside a literal translation. Writing about them means writing about the work of reaching another person.
A pause inside an intense day
I also write for the person who reaches the end of a difficult day and needs relief. Readers do not always open a romance simply to learn what happens. Sometimes they need a few quiet minutes, an emotion that asks nothing of them, a place to rest from their own routine and recover a little hope.
I want my stories to offer relaxation without emptiness, emotion without needless cruelty, and hope without denying the complexity of life. I do not want to pretend that people or relationships are perfect. I want characters who face real difficulties and still find reasons to continue, choose, and change.
If a reader closes a book feeling lighter, breathing more easily, or carrying renewed strength for the next day, the story has already created a connection. Literature does not solve every problem outside the page. It can remind us that curiosity, affection, and possibility still exist.
Writing to cross borders
Art connects people because two lives do not need to be identical for an emotion to be understood. A Brazilian story can meet a reader in another country. A character created in one context can make someone far away recognize longing, fear, or hope. That is where stories truly cross borders.
The wish to reach readers in other languages is not only an idea of expansion. It comes from the desire to share. A careful translation allows the same emotion to find another music and another way to breathe. The language changes, but the intention that gave birth to the story must remain.
I write to turn imagination into stories and invite readers to places they may never have imagined reaching. I write because romance can bring people, cultures, and experiences closer. I write because I still believe one page can quiet the noise and return to someone the desire to dream.
I don't just write stories. I take you to places you never imagined you could reach.
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