Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful.

The writer has to be brave, I think.

I am one Dana when I am talking to my daughter, another when I am talking to the IRS, and another still when I do an interview. These characters are just extreme versions of ordinary human self-switching.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.