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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.

It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.

Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.