No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.
When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.
I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.
Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.
Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.
No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter.