The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

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

I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability.

I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.

People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.

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

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.