Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.
I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
