Now, the Reader becomes the skipper (author) of the boat (story)!
 

From "Sarrasine", Honore de Balzac, in his description of a castrated man disguised as a woman, wrote:

"This was woman herself, with her sudden fears, her irrational whims, her instinctive worries, her impetuous boldness, her fussings, and her delicious sensibility."