Literary Forensics

“I write in these often quite short paragraphs and there’s space around them. And the reason I do that versus in a sort of linear continuous thing is that I’m often trying to figure out how to write and have something working on two different scales at the same time.” - Jenny Offill

“That sort of ability to swing back and forth all of us are quite good at, and part of what I was interested in trying to do in this novel was: What happens when it becomes less easy to do that?”