What is the last book you read? What are you reading next? My main rule for getting work done is to be merciless in terms of making time to try to do it, but then within that time, to be merciful with regard to how I spend that time.Ĥ. I use it for running, reading, or staring out the window. For years, I wrote on my phone while they were nursing, and then, once they (finally) started sleeping, I just kept that time. How secret and special that time felt, similar, I think, to riding a train or walking somewhere-these pockets when you don’t feel obligated to interact or clean the kitchen or listen to the news, and your brain feels looser and more malleable. It started when my kids were babies, and I realized the sort of magic of all the non-time when they-and therefore I-was awake, but no one else was. What does your creative process look like? How do you maintain momentum and remain inspired? But, stories, I would argue, force readers to look and see and come to their own conclusions, to reconsider arguments they might consider predetermined.”ģ. They’re too touched in an agenda, too shaded by a subjectivity we can never wholly have access to. I don’t believe in the ‘truth’ of arguments. “The thing that feels ‘true’ to me about fiction is that it has no obligation to make an argument. In this context, I think of my job is looking and seeing as well and as broadly as I can, and then shaping those observations in ways that hopefully help readers to look and see as well. I think it’s an opportunity to pose questions more than answer them.
I’m not sure I believe in any sort of fixed truths, but I think well-shaped fiction can get us closer than most other things.
(This is not the same, to be clear, as the rightness or morality of certain arguments, which I believe in fully.) But, stories, I would argue, force readers to look and see and come to their own conclusions, to reconsider arguments they might consider predetermined. They’re too couched in an agenda, too shaded by a subjectivity we can never wholly have access to. I don’t believe in the “truth” of arguments. How does your writing navigate truth? What is the relationship between truth and fiction? The thing that feels “true” to me about fiction is that it has no obligation to make an argument. It felt like suddenly being shown that I was allowed both as a human and a writer, that words and stories could be more even than I had thought they were.Ģ. I read Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse in quick succession my sophomore year of college. What was the first book or piece of writing that had a profound impact on you?
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