He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask f… - Ray Bradbury

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action
is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let
run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can
only be dynamic. So, stand aside, forget targets, let the characters, your fingers, body, blood, and heart do.