Interviewer: Is there a chance you only wrote Unfamiliar Fishes because you wanted to visit Hawaii and get a tan?
Sarah: That presupposes that I'm fun.
Interviewer: And that would be untrue?
Sarah: Let's just say that when I went to Australia for a book festival, they said, "We don't really get people as pale as you around here." So, to write the kind of book that I've written, you've got to go to Hawaii for six weeks and spend every day in a refrigerated archive while wearing a cardigan sweater, reading the brittle correspondence of the dead. That said, it did change me a little. Before Hawaii, I didn't understand the point of the beach. But as it turns out, it can be a nice place to read. [My emphasis added].
Sarah also said in the interview, "I'm reverent about irreverence."
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