Status Updates From The Moonstone

Their lives being, for the most part, passed in looking about them for something to do, it is curious to see -… how often they drift blindfold into some nasty pursuit. Nine times out of ten they take to torturing something, or to spoiling something - and they firmly believe they are improving their minds, when the plain truth is, they’re only making a mess in the house.

I'm at the part where the crazy Christian girl talks about trying to drag her cousin to attend 2 masses on the same day, and how everyone tries to avoid her despite her trying to spread the Word, and I'm taking much humor in it just thinking about my crazy religious mom (and also the writing itself is very entertaining and funny)

I wonder whether the gentlemen who make a business and a living out of writing books, ever find their own selves getting in the way of their subjects, like me?