Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to be enacted unless it is being reimagined by a writer?

To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

Much of the visualizing is imaginative.