Anoushka’s Reviews > My Lesbian Novel > Status Update

"the moment of influence is when you realize that, although you're no longer reading one of these books - the language of the book having moved through you - somehow the shape of the field which held the language remains, is somehow an imprint, And once I realized this had happened to me, I recognized that a part of me wanted to write novels that would resemble these emptied-out fields." (74)