Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?

You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.

Until you can become accountable to yourself and only yourself, you're probably not going to live a fully vital life. So much of literature is about accountability. The moral issues in most novels are about people becoming responsible for their own behaviour. One of the forces against being responsible for your own behaviour is the force of the past, in the way that the past tries to form you.