I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun for the writer." Or rather, that if it is, then the pleasure is a sign that it's good. Maybe I feel I've read that somewhere, other writers saying it, and I just think there is possibly no formula, and I don't like to read an interview with a writer where they just lay out the doxa of what quality is. It can seem brittle to do that.

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.