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"I’ve jumped off high places. I did theater in college. Most of what I do is completely against my nature."

—from "Self-Interview," at The Nervous Breakdown

"It’s true: Occasionally intellectual labor is as backbreaking as physical labor."

—from "Anelise Chen recommends," at Poets & Writers

"I love the idea of maintaining some sort of awareness of the body while you’re in this heady intellectual place."

—from "On establishing balance" at The Creative Independent

"Our lives don’t come to us in these perfect reveries, scenes, or dialogues with a bit of exposition...Somehow, for me, the note-taking format mimics the feel of daily life in a truer way."

—from "Then I changed it to third-person clam, and that was exactly how it was meant to be" at Guernica