I didn t take it personally. I mean, you just grow up knowing what s important. One day I sat down and wrote a list of foods I remembered eating and then just started writing. I turned this list into titles such as Uncle Joey s Squab, Avocado Uncle, Spoon Meat, and Fifty-Dollar Pineapple and before I knew it, I had started writing a book.
Some writers never use dialogue.
Some use almost all dialogue. Some writing is all scene. And so on. There re all these techniques available, and people gravitate toward some and not to others. There are a couple stories in there in which the point of view does shift.