“As a writer, and especially as a writer of horror, I find it important to remember that we’re subject to place in ways we’d rather not be.”
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“Publish your first book, a novel based on your life, complete with a thinly veiled version of your hometown. Hint gently in its pages at the deep alienation you felt, the routine harms you witnessed.”
“It all felt very much like those medieval torture devices and Kafka’s Officer who operated on the principle that according to him guilt was always beyond a doubt.”
“I was young, full of creative energy, filling black notebooks with pressed ballpoint ink. Time dilated because I was unbothered by the reality of lugging my dirty laundry down to the laundromat every few weeks or eating rice and beans day after day.”
