" Don’t wait for it,” I said. “Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.” “I feel doomed to "

― Anaïs Nin , The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934