Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.

I like to think each writer is doing his or her part. Feeding the lake, as Jean Rhys said. And maybe there are different lakes.

People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.

I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.