I speak them out loud. It s quite a process it s so slow for me. Certainly, in The Night Listener, the nature of the mystery is all about the nature of voices the way in which voices seduce us and cause our imagination to expand. It s a fascinating thing radio makes the imagination reach outwards. You watch television and you re basically staring at a box.
Radio allows the expansion of thought in a very dramatic way.
It s a very intimate bond. And I was fascinated by the way in which that would impact upon the central mystery of The Night Listener. I think that s an old habit. When I came out of the closet in a public way in my writing and in person, I felt a certain exhilaration about that. I make myself, the more I tell the hard truths about myself, the closer it brings me to readers.