In A Way, The Characters Often Do

Time Was Too Much A Part Of Love, For Even In Fairytales The Proof Of Love Was Not Its First Moment, But Its Latest Ones - That People Lived Happily Ever After. Love At First Sight Was Nothing But Infatuation Until Proved By Time.

At The Same Time, I Think Books Create A Sort Of Network In The Reader's Mind, With One Book Reinforcing Another. Some Books Form Relationships. Other Books Stand In Opposition. No Two Writers Or Readers Have The Same Pattern Of Interaction.

It Is A Good Idea To Know Which Publishers Publish Which Stories. For Example, There Is No Sense In Sending A Picture Book Text To A Publisher Who Does Not Publish Picture Books.

In A Way, The Characters Often Do Take Over.

There Are Always Two People Involved In Cruelty, Aren't There? One To Be Vicious And Someone To Suffer! And What's The Use Of Getting Rid Of - Of Wickedness, Say - In The Outside World If You Let It Creep Back Into Things From Inside You?