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It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).

"'My narrator is starving, both literally and metaphorically': Teddy Wayne and Alexandra Kleeman on anxiety and alienation in their new books". www.salon.com. September 13, 2016.

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

"Swift Ascent". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. January 25, 2009.

Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.

Susan Wiggs (2012). “Summer at Willow Lake: Lakeshore Chronicles”, p.79, Harlequin

I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.

"Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently.

"Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.