Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.

I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

I am interested in silences