Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.