“Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.”
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The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.