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I Love The Characters Not Knowing Everything And The Reader Knowing More Than Them. There's More Mischief In That And More Room For Seriousness, Too.

My Kids Are Supposed To Live Till They Are One Hundred. You Don't Have To Have A Perfect House Or A Perfect Relationship With Your Child Or A Perfect Child, And You Yourself Do Not Have To Be Perfect.

And, In Fact, This Is The Tale That I Would Love To Write: History Is Such A Romantic Place, With Its Jarveys And Urchins And Side-buttoned Boots. If It Would Just Stay Still, I Think, And Settle Down. If It Would Just Stop Sliding Around In My Head.

Story Is About Pulling The Reader In And A Plot Is A More Externalized Mechanism Of Revelation. A Plot Is More Antic, More Performative, And Less Intimate. When You're Telling A Story You're Telling It Into Someone's Ear.

When You Find Yourself Alone, Or In A Transition, You Dream More. These Are Also The Times When You Read Books.