I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.
I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.
I don't like to attach myself to material things.
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.
I do see, in some younger writers, elements and things that I have used - and I am very touched and flattered because I am part of a tapestry that is being absorbed by authors.
I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself.
My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.
I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.
My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form.