When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.
You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]
Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.
Reading can take you places you have never been before.
The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!
Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.