February 9th, 2011

Author Interview with Girls Just Reading

After yesterday’s review, Alice from Girls Just Reading picks my brain a little bit. Click through for full interview.

GJR:  You have an amazing gift of giving life to inanimate objects.  Is it harder to write personality into people or things (like trees and mattresses)?

AA:  Why, thank you! I love personification. I think if you can see what’s hopelessly human in something that is hopelessly not, the absolute humanity in everyone becomes apparent. If a no-smoking sign at a pub can feel longing and loneliness, how can you justify not seeing that humans all around you do as well—even the most incomprehensible of strangers, or the friends whose inner worlds we forget. I think giving objects human characteristics makes it harder to deny that we see those traits in ourselves. You can ignore a fictional character’s greed because, even if he’s imagined, he’s just one person, and that trait is specific to him, just like you ignore real people’s deeds and misdeeds, even if they seem slightly familiar, by saying to yourself that you are not that person. But when a tree feels jealousy, or an electrical socket can feel absolute joy when connecting with something which is its exact opposite, it makes it easier to see in ourselves all that which makes us human.
∞02:02 pm, by somewhereoverthesunnovel ∩6
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