You're a writer. Make it up.

I've never flown a kite.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

Fiction novels, that's my game.