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" When I had a baby, I was consumed with my body. "

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" I feel like my only safety is in being totally true to myself. "

" I know I'm going to lose a lot of readers over this, and I don't care: 'Garfield' is overrated. I have always felt this, even as a child. That dumb man and his dumb, mean cat have gotten more of our attention than they deserve. "

" I've always had a dog phobia. "

" I'm often drawn in by a description of a woman thinking something familiar that's never been articulated before, as in Diane Cook's 'Somebody's Baby' or Nina Berberova's 'The Tattered Cloak.' "

" There's no law against asking strangers about their lives and feelings, although sometimes it really feels like there is. "

" I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way. "

" I have female friends who work in all different mediums who I speak to at least once a week. It helps me so much to know that I'm not alone. I think that's the bare minimum you need to sustain yourself - some sort of context of other women making things. "

" I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep. "

" I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment. "

" When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything. "

" We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do. "

" I have a big brother who would make dolls' houses and playhouses and furniture out of wood. He was the one who taught me from such a young age that you could just make something. The physical act of gluing something together was really formative for me. "

" Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries. "

" I'm quite a cerebral person. Often I feel quite stuck in that. "

" An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12. "

" I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: 'There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.' "

" I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters. "

" I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book. "

" It's amazing how little you can see people but still stay in regular contact. "

" Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly cartoon world, so there's this tension between harmlessness and perversion that is totally unsettling. "

" My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life. "

" I've been using the same 'I Ching' since I was teenager when it was given to me by a fellow teenager; it seems too late to change now. I don't use it often, but when I do, it really does help. You can fool yourself, but not the 'I Ching.' "

" I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I do end up reading lots of shorter things. "

" As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to me. "

" My love for my son just destroys me. I can barely even talk about it. "

" I think this is how life is. It's not a linear march through time; you revolve around the same old things as you age and acquire experiences. "

" I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling. "

" My husband and I are two people who never thought we'd be married. "

" My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical. "