Well, I Think That As A Country,

Fantasy Is The Only Canvas Large Enough For Me To Paint On.

We Are Constantly Being Put To The Test By Trying Circumstances And Difficult People And Problems Not Necessarily Of Our Own Making.

The More Complex And Overwhelming The Threat To A Protagonist, The Better The Opportunity For The Author To Create A Compelling Conflict And A Dramatic Resolution.

The Reader Wants To See Something Happen Between Pages One And Four Hundred, And Nothing Happens If The Characters Don't Change.

I Remember One Winter, When I Was About Five Or Six, I Spent Three Days With Another Boy, Tracking A Bobcat That Had Been Sighted In Another County Fifty Miles Away, But Which I Was Sure Had Come Into Our Neighborhood.