I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.
It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.
Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language.
I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!
If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.