To Be Able To Have

Story Is About Pulling The Reader In And A Plot Is A More Externalized Mechanism Of Revelation. A Plot Is More Antic, More Performative, And Less Intimate. When You're Telling A Story You're Telling It Into Someone's Ear.

If You Can Just Actually Let The Character Be For A Bit, Then You Get The Right Sense.

Having Kids Is Very Difficult To Do On Your Own, And It's Really Crazy Difficult To Think You're Doing It As A Team And To Find Out That You're Not Actually Part Of A Team.

I Think Young Children In The Western Middle Classes Are Objects Of Incredible Anxiety.

Belief Needs Something Terrible To Make It Work, I Find--blood, Nails, A Bit Of Anguish.