Carrie Goodall asked Jesse Andrews:

What is it about Virginia Woolf's writing that opened everything up for you? Are you able to choose one of her books as a favorite or is that just too hard?

Jesse Andrews it was just the first kind of extreme psychological realism that i encountered in a book that i really FELT, viscerally—she puts you so convincingly the interior of someone else's mind, with all its strange familiar patterns of thought and repetition and interruption, and it was a total revelation to me. it made me feel the infinite possibility of words on a page—that they could convey not just exteriors but interiors, and the latter was actually far more interesting and unbounded. the book that did that was mrs. dalloway but i prefer to the lighthouse now.

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