I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does. - Jasper Fforde

If you’ve not dreamed, you’ve never truly slept. Dreams are the place where you can be yourself; do anything, be anything. The mind set free.

"Why didn't he say so directly?" asked Sprockett, not unreasonably.
"This is Fiction," I explained. "The exigency of drama requires events to be clouded in ambiguity."

Money had never been a problem in the Book World. All the details of life were taken care of by something called Narrative Assumption. A reader would assume you had gone shopping, or gone to the toilet, or brushed your hair, so a writer never needed to outline it.