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‘I like it when fiction respects the reality that no one truly knows anyone else’

‘I wanted to write something that tried to do justice to the ordinary strangeness of our lives in time’

Patricia Lockwood speaks about the Booker Prize-longlisted No One is Talking About This, and her inspiration behind the novel

‘I’ve just updated the fable for the age of pandemics, exoplanets, and mass extinction’

‘I knew I wanted to make the line between fact and fiction imperceptible’

‘I’m sadly incapable of planning my books. I just have to leap and then hope I’m able to resolve all the problems.’

‘In film, the point-of-view jumps and changes all the time - why not in a novel?’

‘The best approach for me would be to simplify the story as far as possible, much as one might see done in a poem’

‘I view each book I write as a kind of apprenticeship to writers I want to emulate’

‘I liked the idea of the book being somehow spoken, as to a friend’