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I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.
Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature.
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
If I have a connection with someone, I'd like to think that they'd be able to respect that connection enough and respect themselves enough to not care about my past - that they would want to see what happens between us.
A lot of times, I walk down the street and listen to people argue, and then I write a song about it.
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.
I've written repeatedly about the quest by corporations everywhere to transform themselves digitally.
