I'm obsessed with this book 'Independent People,' by Halldor Laxness. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
At the time that 'Detransition, Baby' came out, I was really resistant to having anybody say that I was representing trans women.… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
If you read a book by a cis woman, there's a full range of people doing things for all sorts of different… — 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 hope that by the end of reading 'Stag Dance,' you can no longer really say for sure who does or doesn't… — 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
Most of the really fun books that are doing various dialects are also inventing things themselves - they're not pure pastiche. — 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
A lot of the big American social novels are just these domestic novels, like Jonathan Franzen or whoever, They have these domestic… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I flat-out owe my career as a trans author to the unimpeded circulation of digital books: the first trans books that inspired… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Authors often become identified with an item of clothing - Zadie Smith, for instance, is known for her head wraps, and Fran… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'm obsessed with this book 'Independent People,' by Halldor Laxness. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
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 Image
When I'm open to beauty's true power, I believe it changes me for the better. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
People are going to make mistakes no matter what because that's what being human is. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
