What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.
I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what mine look like at all. My sense of them comes from the inside. They remain, by necessity, physically vague in my mind.
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.
