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.

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

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 the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and the messiness, our sometimes dividedness, dealing with gender and other hierarchies, and also our identities outside of them, deeply personal and yet somehow critical and circumspect.

I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.

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