“I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.”

“My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I am no single narrative. As neither Rebecca de Winter nor Jane Eyre, I am free to revise my story, to reinvent myself, my world, at any given moment.”

“Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.”

“Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story.”

“We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don’t usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I’m saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.”

“I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”