I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.

Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.