Influences

• The fragrance of musk and sweat. The feel of blood. People, hollow lives that can be filled. Words and phrases that take me off at a tangent. My childhood, my grandma, my mother. A marriage that did not work out. A divorce that took too much time. Solitude. Blanche Dubois, Madame Bovary, Evita are the characters I often imagine being. I know they are nasty little women, but then one can have such aspirations.

Favorite Books

• Every writer, besides the ones I have listed, has had something to convey that has left me with the taste of bitter chocolate, and that I like.

Favorite Authors

• Shakespeare
  Virginia Woolf
  Anais Nin
  Henry Miller
  Tennessee Williams
  Edward Said
  Harold Pinter
  Norman Mailer
  Chekhov
  Ahmed Faraz
  Faiz Ahmed Faiz
  Saadat Hassan Manto
  Ismat Chugtai