“Sometimes with a flutter of agitated worry that felt like a beetle was trapped inside my ribs. p. 90”
“Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that when agitated, bursts to create something marvelously desirable. It’s sort of like those tiny, little thoughts trapped inside an author’s head that―in an excited explosion of words―suddenly become a captivating fairy tale!”
“When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)”
“You look about as trapped as a piglet at a baby back ribs cookoff.”
“I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.”
“My heart flutters a little. Or something inside my heart flutters; an artery worn so thin that a flap has come loose, is waving about, in the current of my blood.”