Interviews

The human body is the most miraculous machine, and each of us gets one—just one.

...no human being is explicitly good or explicitly bad, and asking a character to be relatable all of the time negates the possibility of their being a fully realized human.

I do think that making something out of your fear is a hopeful act, at least on the level of the individual.

My understanding of survival has evolved. I am interested in the idea that we go through a journey of creating ourselves as humans.

I thought, “You’re not allowed to write a book that’s just about a woman walking. That’s not even a book. That doesn’t even make sense.”

I’m interested in knowing when I’m lying to myself and how that allows me to make different choices later.

Not everything is going to be funny to everybody, but a joke is going to be funny to at least one person, one time, at a specific point.

When I write, I don’t set out to preserve anything. I feel more like a conduit for whatever obsessions, conscious or not, are inside of me.

I collect things like a magpie. I need to try everything.

I feel increasingly in my life that action and feeling must be in a dance.

I’m learning to embrace my excess, and that gentle acceptance of my extraness waterfalls over into my work.