There's relief in white space for the reader.

I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.

It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the five senses or not. I think literature is one of the only kinds of art that truly lets us into that.

I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.

The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond.