Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
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.
But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.