I do. The psychology of creative writing fascinates me—how different voices and points of view come into being. The reader’s involvement is crucial as well. Sometimes I think of the way a writer opens a novel as akin to how clinical psychology begins, with a kind of contract that the reader—God, I mean the patient—enters into with the psychotherapist. You establish a mutual trust on which the subsequent process depends, so that the necessary stages of resistance, transference, and so on can take place. All this must lead to a certain release, a kind of catharsis, such that the patient who’s undergone psychotherapy is no longer the person he was at the beginning. That’s what a writer does as well, and how fiction works on its readers. Setting up a legible agreement and upholding it encourages the audience to keep reading despite all the ways the book might disturb them, so that, at the end, they will come out changed. I believe that every good novel changes its reader in some fashion.