All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real.

It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through an individual voice, a collective experience - you are speaking individually but you are representing collectively.