If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.
jokes are used to hide the truth!
no expectations, no disappointments!
I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
don't take many words to break a fragile heart!
For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.