Section 3
　When I create a story,/the images of the characters/are important.// Kiki’s Delivery Service  was born/from my daughter’s drawing.// It was a simple picture/of a witch on a broom.// The picture made me imagine the character.// I imagined/that a young girl like my daughter/was flying over skyscrapers/in New York.//
　The names of the characters/are also essential.// When I was young,/I didn’t like school.// However,/my teacher remembered my given name/and called me “Eiko chan ”/one day.// I felt very happy.// So when I write stories,/I think carefully/about the names of the characters.// Once I named the witch “Kiki”,/I felt/that she was next to me.// She whispered,/“Let’s fly together.”//