I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.

I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.

I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.