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.

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.

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.

I never know where I'm headed when I'm working on a book.

We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.

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.

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