You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating and intricate style that might not appeal to as many readers but will be incredibly meaningful to the readers you have. Truly, that's as wonderful if not more wonderful.

Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.

We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.

There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.

Maybe we're stuck with who we are.