I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!
Gail Carson LevineIf beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.
Gail Carson Levine