The Best Lies To Tell Are The

She Wasn't The Only One To Be Physically Morphed By Reader Expectation. Miss Havisham Was Now Elderly Whether She Liked It Or Not, And Sherlock Holmes Wore A Deerstalker And Smoked A Ridiculously Large Pipe. The Problem Wasn't Just Confined To The Classics. Harry Potter Was Seriously Pissed Off That He'd Have To Spend The Rest Of Life Looking Like Daniel Radcliffe.

Ill-fitting Grammar Are Like Ill-fitting Shoes. You Can Get Used To It For A Bit, But Then One Day Your Toes Fall Off And You Can't Walk To The Bathroom.

Reading, I Had Learned, Was As Creative A Process As Writing, Sometimes More So. When We Read Of The Dying Rays Of The Setting Sun Or The Boom And Swish Of The Incoming Tide, We Should Reserve As Much Praise For Ourselves As For The Author. After All, The Reader Is Doing All The Work - The Writer Might Have Died Long Ago.

He Set Fire To Some Potatoes, Then Cooked Some Undelivered Post In The Embers." - Dad "did He Now? What A Strange Fellow. I Would Have Done It The Other Way Around." - Stafford

I Would So Hate To Be A First-person Character! Always On Your Guard, Always Having People Read Your Thoughts!