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

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..

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image..

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

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics..

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mis….

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!.

It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you. The person….

As to the "traditional filler of twenty-first century realist fiction," maybe that is something I avoid. I don't relate to standard psychologizing in….

I was a child but weirdly uninhibited. I talked to people and inserted myself in all kinds of absurd situations. I think some of those life experienc….

At a certain age just being around particular people is an event..

At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Book….

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