I was relying on a kind of natural transition - the transitions made by someone who is slightly deranged.

It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.

California: The west coast of Iowa.

I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.

I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking.