People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.

People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.

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?

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

I'm interested in someone who's mired in grief: how do you get back to that thing that makes them warm? Because you know that's in there.