Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.
If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.