Everybody wants a prize to be unadulterated pleasure. Because I'm trans, I don't get that purity of recognition. — Torrey Peters Gender Copy Share Image
The question of motherhood for me is never just between me and a baby, or me and a man. There's always another… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I mean, I don't relate to characters who are perfect. If someone offers up somebody as a role model, I'm going to… — Torrey Peters Characters Copy Share Image
When you are loaded with such shame and you are not allowed to experience your own reality, it's going to erupt somewhere. — Torrey Peters Experience 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 Books 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 Fiction 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 Freedom Copy Share Image
The expectation that trans people must go away to medically transition strikes me as a burden. People have to work, to live… — Torrey Peters Burden Copy Share Image
Our genders are in negotiation with other people. I'm like, 'I want to be seen this way, and so I'm going to… — Torrey Peters Gender 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 Art 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
So many moms I know feel alienated and alone and isolated, and there's so much put on them. And then you see… — Torrey Peters Alone 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… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I lived my life in my 20s as a man. I was trans in my 20s, that was a thing I was… — Torrey Peters Dress Copy Share Image
The party line is that you declare yourself a gender, and then everybody will respect it. But the way it actually works… — Torrey Peters Gender Copy Share Image
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… — Torrey Peters Midwest Copy Share Image
I've gone on a Knausgaard bender with a young gay black man and an Australian grandmother - together. — Torrey Peters Australian 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 -… — Torrey Peters Country Copy Share Image
There's a lot that cis and trans women have to say to each other. We're all dealt blows, and we move on… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I'm very anti-pistachio in croissants. But if you're just totally reinventing the croissant and putting halloumi in it, I'll go with that. — Torrey Peters Food 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 Blues Copy Share Image
The number of times that I've gotten in my own way because I've justified, or told myself a story, or lied to… — Torrey Peters Life 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 Books Copy Share Image
Ayad Akhtar's 'Homeland Elegies' pointed the way to new ways to speak about identity, new modes of honesty about identity and class. — Torrey Peters Homeland Copy Share Image
People who are just rabid in their bigotry can't actually hurt me because they're so obviously deranged that they marginalise themselves. — 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… — Torrey Peters Art Copy Share Image
Most people I know who have detransitioned have a kind of regret in that they tried something and it didn't work and… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I've encountered Knausgaard obsessives who work for the government. In Hollywood. I've met them at a queer separatist compound. — Torrey Peters Government 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 flat-out owe my career as a trans author to the unimpeded circulation of digital books: the first trans books that inspired… — Torrey Peters Books Copy Share Image
Money is a thing that is very, very difficult for people to talk about, especially with transness. Who can afford surgeries? Who… — 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 Books 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 Book Copy Share Image
It's not that I am demanding empathy for trans people. It's actually more than I'm demanding that readers have empathy for themselves,… — Torrey Peters Emotions Copy Share Image
In the space of time between when I am awed by beauty and when my mind instinctively cuts it down to a… — Torrey Peters Beauty 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
I was learning to use a chainsaw because I had to cut the trees for firewood and build a bridge on the… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
There are times when I think that trans women have a certain wisdom on gender, and can see the ways it's performed… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Things like debates over which bathrooms trans people use; it is incredibly undignified to have to stage your Human Rights Campaign about… — Torrey Peters Energy Copy Share Image
The first of any minority group to do something never has a great time. It is not much fun but it important… — Torrey Peters Change Copy Share Image
