Katie Kitamura

“I'm always interested in a character who does something and doesn't understand why they've done it.”

“People remain unknowable to us, even people that we're very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves.”

“How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.”

“One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplifies others.”

“Modern sport can be an ugly convergence of commerce and celebrity, but it still has the capacity to move a crowd.”

“I am generally wary of the demand for 'likeability' in fiction, which I think is a bastardisation of the demand of identification - itself something of a suspect notion.”

“The alchemy of a fight card is a mysterious thing. Even the most meticulous matchmaking can sometimes misfire.”

“For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read.”

“I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.”

“We act in ways that are mysterious to ourselves.”