I never stopped reading.
As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
A story is how we construct our experiences.
On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.