"Oh no, I never have an audience in mind. Or rather, the audience is the same as the one you put on..."

“Oh no, I never have an audience in mind. Or rather, the audience is the same as the one you put on shows for, in your room, when you’re a child engaging in the deepest and most private kind of play. It seems like the whole world you’re playing for, it seems like the eye of God up on the ceiling, but it’s really your own consciousness distributed among dolls. It couldn’t be anything else.”

- Patricia Lockwood, on whether she has an audience in mind while writing, as told to Molly Minturn for The Awl (via bostonpoetryslam)