"I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened."
"Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are."
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"Scars are stories, history written on the body"
"For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity."
"I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives."
"I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing."
"Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary."