Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

How do you do that?” Mennis asked, frowning. “What?” “Smile so much.” “Oh, I’m just a happy person.

Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.

I've seen Steelheart bleed

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.