I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.

I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.

Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.

So often we think of a wound or a loss as making a person feel more deeply, become a better person. But I don't think that always happens. I think it can constrict people's lives, especially if they don't push beyond it.

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.

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