For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

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

Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.

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.

There's relief in white space for the reader.

In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn to speak or write in the first place - but they're writing a Dean Koontz novel or something.