You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin, by a real idealism and an excitement about the possibilities of the intellect and imagination to deal with this somewhat brutal world.

To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.