I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.
Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else
I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.
Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.