Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is formed around these prevailing attitudes.

As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.

The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.

Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.