When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.

I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards here's Australia and here's America and here's the Pacific.

You have to want something or you're finished.

I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.

I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a lot of it dangerous, a lot of it ruinous.