I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.