That's The Way I Will Write Characters,

Jacques Derrida Is A Very Important Thinker And Philosopher Who Has Made Serious Contributions To Both Philosophy And Literary Criticism. Roland Barthes Is The One I Feel Most Affinity For, And Michel Foucault, Well, His Writing Influenced My Novel, 'middlesex.'

Novelists Are Always Resisting Autobiographical Readings Of Their Work, Because They Know How False Those Can Be.

At Night The Cries Of Cats Making Love Or Fighting, Their Caterwauling In The Dark, Told Us That The World Was Pure Emotion, Flung Back And Forth Among Its Creatures, The Agony Of The One-eyed Siamese No Different From That Of The Lisbon Girls, And Even The Trees Plunged In Feeling.

We Knew, Finally, That The Girls Were Really Women In Disguise, That They Understood Love And Even Death, And That Our Job Was Merely To Create The Noise That Seemed To Fascinate Them.

I Approach Writing Female Characters The Same Why I Approach Writing Male Characters. I Never Think I'm Writing About Women, I Think I'm Writing About One Woman, One Person. And I Try To Imagine What She Is Like, And Endow Her With A Lot Of My Own Thoughts And History.