Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.

As someone who writes novels that are often set in other periods of time or other ages or other landscapes, there's a certain element of research I have to do, and often, the more laconic people are, the more interesting they become.

She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.

I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love

This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.

A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.