1. “In my writing classes, I don’t outlaw any genre writing.”
2. “Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it’s done.”
3. “The comparing mind is despairing mind.”
4. “There’s always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle though.”
5. “There’s relief in white space for the reader.”
6. “I felt sure about wanting to look at a person’ life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.”
7. “Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there acn be defamiliarization.”
8. “For me, genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.”
9. “The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.”
10. “I’m always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.”
