If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.