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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

I think people perceive me completely differently than how I perceive myself. I see myself as a sweet, cosy, motherly type. We all want people to be more glamorous and daring and adventurous than they actually are.

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what mine look like at all. My sense of them comes from the inside. They remain, by necessity, physically vague in my mind.

More often than we realize, people see in us what we don't see in ourselves.