““Now I ask you to consider writing from the inside, to convince yourself of your characters' dimensions before you attempt to narrate around them or explain them. We always misstep when we consider our writing of a story as a separate action from the story itself ... Characters would find the suggestion that they are in a story ridiculous and insulting; when writing is truly working, both writer and reader would share this sense of insult, and resent the interruption.””
![“In her childhood, [Sylvia] Wright had heard a tune in which some lines seemed to be 'They have slain the Earl Amurray / and Lady Mondegreen.' It wasn't until years later that Wright realized the lyric was 'They have slain the Earl of Moray / and laid him on the green.' We all have mondegreens…” quote by Tin House Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0e6/tin-house-books-48623_children_in-her-childhood-sylvia-wright-had-heard_3035219.jpg)
