I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

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.

No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.

I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.

I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.