In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It's when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive their motivations and values.
Every person in therapy has a love disorder.
As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.
I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.
The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.
I sat around the kitchen every Sunday afternoon listening to my mother and aunts talk about the people in the neighborhood. Gossip - I loved it. And that turns out to be the writer's job: to attend to the gossip and spread it as far as you can.