Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.

...water laughing softly down a black stone wall.

And the question is, which one is really "you.

A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.

Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.