I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game.

I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.

That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you.