Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

No nightly trance or breathèd spell, / Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

I look at voices as instruments. I wasn?t going after the person or the name. I wanted their voice.