All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.