Being A Writer Of Fiction Isn't Like

Stories Are The Things That Allow Us To Persuade Each Other That We're Human.

I Was A Book-y Child. I Was Much More Book-y Than Dark.

Idris: Are All People Like This? The Doctor: Like What? Idris: So Much Bigger On The Inside.

I Walk Across The Dreaming Sands Under The Pale Moon: Through The Dreams Of Countries And Cities, Past Dreams Of Places Long Gone And Times Beyond Recall.

We Have An Obligation To Read Aloud To Our Children. To Read Them Things They Enjoy. To Read To Them Stories We Are Already Tired Of. To Do The Voices, To Make It Interesting, And Not To Stop Reading To Them Just Because They Learn To Read To Themselves. Use Reading-aloud Time As Bonding Time, As Time When No Phones Are Being Checked, When The Distractions Of The World Are Put Aside.