I Collect Ex-boyfriends -- And More Than

If Only Life Were That Simple; If One Could Jump To The Good Parts And Flick Through The Bad.

There Is Much Unexplained In The World. It Behooves Us To Be Wary At All Times. Just When You Think You've Got The Hang Of It, Along Comes String Theory, Collateralized Debt Obligations Or Björk's New Album, And Bam! You're As Confused As You Were When You First Started.

I Could Almost See Common Sense And Denial Fighting Away At Each Other Within Her. In The End, Denial Won, As It So Often Does.

Writing Needs To Be Practiced; There Is A Limit To How Much Can Be Gleaned From A Teacher Or A Manual. The True Essence Of Writing Is Out There, In The World, And Inside, Within Yourself. To Write, You Have To Give.

Mr. Mcgregor's A Nasty Piece Of Work, Isn't He? Quite The Darth Vader Of Children's Literature.