I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm such ….

I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker..

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants..

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective..

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!.

People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to a different country no long….

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove y….

I developed a crazy face rash after I got engaged to a guy I must have known somewhere I should not marry. I hadn't articulated this to myself, so my….

A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approa….

To believe you're being psychically attacked gives you an understanding of your illness that no Western doctor can provide; this can be reassuring wh….

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction..

I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot….

The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me..

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels..

I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so t….

Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards..

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm….

The dreamed outcome of launching a psychic attack can make you feel small and petty. I think for that reason I'm going to refrain from launching any..

I wish somebody knew whether or not I'm Jewish..

If you agree with an outside person's interpretation of you, that's a happy bit of affirmation. It means you're communicating externally what you bel….

When I was writing my first draft, and feeling grandiose, I e-mailed an artist/clothing designer I know and suggested we collaborate on a fashion lin….