Thanks to the many who have given me ideas, stories, or things to think about over the years; specifically, in the case of this book, Noelene Horton, Nick Lillie, Bruno Bettelheim, Michael Schwartz, Alice Miller, Antoinette Ryan, David Loader, Rosalind Alexander, and thousands of others.
The author would like to acknowledge that small portions of this text have appeared in Everything I Know About Writing (Reed, 1993) and The Written World, edited by Agnes Nieuwenhuizen (Thorpe, 1994).