“ You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't. ”
Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
~ Katherine Paterson
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.