The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Writing poetry is a state of free float

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.