Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.
I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.
When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.
I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.
Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?