When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia.

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

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

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

I hope what I do when I draw from other people's lives is pay tribute. To try to understand what it means in our society to be silenced. To try to understand how class and gender intersect with that. To try to understand how being named and classified within the context of psychiatry can intersect with all that, as well.

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!