I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

It's only life. We all get through it.

The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.

Inaction counted as a choice.

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.