SHEHERAZADE

"I was in a bookstore, and I saw a little girl run over to her mother with a big book and she said, "Mommy, what does this word say on the front?" The mother said, "It says "Scheherezade." The little girl said, "Who's Scheherezade?" And the mother said, "Scheherezade was the woman who had to make her stories so interesting she didn't get killed that night." And I thought, that's exactly how I feel." -- Lindsay Doran, On Writing #10