If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.

In general, Americans like to be entertained. Canadians seem more suspicious of it.

I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.

I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there.

Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.

The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.

Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You have more situations where you take the offer or don't get published or you learn to self-publish.