I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.

I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?

Try to be accurate about stuff.

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.