John Morris asked Catherine Milos:

If you weren't an author, what would you wish to be?

Catherine Milos If I wasn't an author, I'd wish to be one. I can't be anything else other than what I am. No other job allows me to be a hundred different people in hundreds of different worlds. As a writer, I can live a moment in each career that strikes my fancy. I can follow experts around and share in their passion and learning for a moment. I get to fight myself past discomfort and delve into worlds that bring me fear and love more deeply than I can ever hope to love anything in the real world. As a writer I get to fly, or be a mermaid, meet a unicorn, or be a wizard. There is no other job that transcends the chains of this world like an artist, musician, or writer's passion. As a writer, I get to create while surrounded by a world riddled with destruction and war. I build in a time when everyone is tearing each other's souls out to get five dollars. As a writer, I get to be a part of an unlimited universe in a world that seeks to box you into tiny, restrictive, imperfect categories to make others feel better. I get to care as deeply or as shallowly as I am able at the moment and need no explanation or excuses. I could never wish to be anything else.

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