I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.
I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.
When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn.
My characters tend, if wounded, to be emotionally resourceful. Often they're in that way station between when loss happens and when it can be fully comprehended. In the meantime they're fighting to get something back, and occasionally they prevail in surprising ways.
I'm suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last.
I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.