The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.

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

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

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

I think for the foreseeable future we have to disabuse ourselves of any ideas of unifying, or coming together, or all getting along. I don't think we're going to reconcile the America that elected the first African American president with the America that just elected a president avidly endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan - I'm not sure I even want to reconcile the two.

My own personal experience has become more first-hand.

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