While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.

My own personal experience has become more first-hand.

I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them.

To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not one of them - one of its distinguishing traits is the story's awareness of its own artifice, and how that awareness becomes part of the story. And if that's right, then I have no idea how I ever got lumped into postmodernism except that I believe, since I was first published, people just haven't quite known where else to put me.

Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

There have been times I thought that when I got a certain point in the story, a certain character was going to do a certain thing, only to get to that point and have the character make clear that he or she doesn't want to do that at all. That long phone conversation I thought the character was going to have? He hangs up the phone before the other person answers, and twenty pages of dialog I had half written in my head go out the window.