Whatever One Intends, The Work

You Have To Figure Out Who The Right Person Is To Tell The Story. And Often, People Who Are Very Self-aware Will Only Sound As If They Are Pontificating If They Tell The Story.

Whatever One Intends, The Work Takes On A Life Of Its Own.

While I Would Agree That I Write About Serious Subjects, And That They're Not Necessarily The Most Pleasant Subjects Or Even The Most Pleasant People, As A Writer I Just Think About The Humorous Aspects Of These Things - That's What Keeps Me Going When I'm Writing A Story.

You Put A Character Out There And You're In Their Power. You're In Trouble If They're In Yours.

I Like A Lot Of Margaret Atwood, I Like Much Of Alice Munro. Again, If You Were To Ask Me About Male Writers, There's Often A Novel I Admire, But Not All Of Their Works.