A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
When I start working early, I write things that I wouldn't if all my defences were up; I discover the emotional core… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
A lot of writing is everybody being revealed, but the reader should feel like only they are being revealed. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I see myself as coming out of a trans tradition. There's a number of trans writers before me who wrote great novels. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
If 'Nevada' was an original for a certain scene of trans writing, 'Stone Butch Blues' is an original in literature, no qualifications. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
For me, a trans writer, Knausgaard taught me about writing shame as liberation from it - a literary version of the kind… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
The idea that you would read Jesmyn Ward for credentials is, like, you've missed the point of the beauty of her writing… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
It's coming home for me as a writer, which means that, with my friends, I'd have to be able to write through… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I am going to lose my fanbase and say that Jonathan Franzen's 'Crossroads' is very good. One of my favourite writers is… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm not just competing with other prose writers, I'm competing with TV. So I think a lot about the… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
There are black trans writers, there are Latina trans writers who are all capable of telling their own story. They don't need… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
When you think about fascism and right-wing governments, oftentimes people think about European history, but it's been flaring up on and off… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
For me, as a trans writer, is the Philip Roth trajectory available to me? Could I be commenting on American stuff long… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
You can speak universally by writing your specifics. That's historically been the case with authors like Philip Roth writing about New Jersey… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes. This distresses many of my female, queer, and trans friends: Torrey, you have… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
The premise of any discussion I have is not to debate my humanity. I refuse to engage on that level. It makes for a… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
People don't care about facts anyway; in my country, we have 'alternative facts.' But if you can make somebody feel something - and oftentimes… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
The fact that someone like me can exist terrifies some people. Because: 'What if you had control of your body and you got to… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes. This distresses many of my female, queer, and trans friends: Torrey, you have every woman… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
At certain moments in my life, I have stumbled upon a beauty so extreme, I have stepped back in alarm. There are some people… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
It's not just unexpected for other people. It's very unexpected for myself. But I think that's like a really good place to write from,… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
When I'm open to beauty's true power, I believe it changes me for the better. — Torrey Peters Copy Share
People are going to make mistakes no matter what because that's what being human is. — Torrey Peters Copy Share
I mean, I don't relate to characters who are perfect. If someone offers up somebody as a role model, I'm going to be like,… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
At the time that 'Detransition, Baby' came out, I was really resistant to having anybody say that I was representing trans women. Because there… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
I'm from the Midwest, and I was raised a boy. If you told my 17-year-old self that when you turn 40, you're going to… — Torrey Peters Copy Share
