There's relief in white space for the reader.

The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.

Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.

I have what I came to find in my research is a mild form of synesthesia, though I never would have labeled it as such. It's how I think about numbers and letters. They all have inherent genders.

For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.

I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things.

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

Be brave to share your story! Each of our stories, have a golden treasure for a specific need.

When leaves begin to sprout, we know spring season is here.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.

If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.