The earthy humor and self-deprecating machisma of the author kept the talk from becoming maudlin. It is a book about sex and food, mostly aphrodisiac. This is a masculine phenomenon. In every culture since the beginning of time, man has looked for aphrodisiacs. They follow their own rules.
Stories are to humankind what dreams are to individuals.
If we are awakened, we suffer. She discussed how she uses dreams in writing. She keeps a notebook on the night table next to her bed and writes down what happens in her dreams. In my dreams, if a child cries with the voice of an old man, I check the book I am writing, maybe there is a character with the wrong voice. If the child is in a maze, I check the plot.