A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.
My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.
The dead are way more organized than the living.