What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
I was always my own teacher.
I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
Never think you've seen the last of anything.
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.