For me, writing fiction means staying wide open to human experience by giving myself permission to be vulnerable and to intuit how other people can be vulnerable in the same ways. It’s about representing that complex emotional mystery with as much sincerity and authenticity as possible—not as some kind of living camera, but as an individual person limited by defects and inhibitions, who is nevertheless willing to express what he feels. That’s why I will never be finished becoming a writer. I’ll never get it done. I’ll never be able to say, “Okay, now I’ve done my best work.”
The Writing Expedition 