Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.
I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.
People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.
He traveled in order to come home.
Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.
By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.