I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.
You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
