“ You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like. ”
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
You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
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.
