Stories Have No Point If They Don't

Hardship Makes The World Obscure.

In Fiction, I Tend To Write Fairly Realistic Dialogue-not Always, And It Tends To Vary From Book To Book. But In Many Books, There Is A Colloquialism Of Address. The Characters Will Speak In A Quite Idiosyncratic Way Sometimes.

She Became Confused When She Stepped Onto An Escalator That Wasn't Working.

I Was Always Younger Than Anyone Around Me. One Day It Began To Change.

Naturally A Direct Comparison Of Terrorist And Novelist Is Complete Nonsense. But There Was Once A Time When The Novelist Also Had Some Influence On How His Contemporaries Thought, The Way They Saw The World, The Way They Lived.