A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.

With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word.

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper.

I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.

It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your emotions guide the writing about a place.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.