Art is not in some far-off place.

There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don’t usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I’m saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.

I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.