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I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

Art is significant deformity.

Art is the job of the privileged.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.