An important influence has been Thomas Bernhard, who was the first to show me that so much didn’t need to be written at all, that you could cut to the quick – which for me, as for him, I think, are the driving nature of thoughts and the way they play out. I grew up in a household that was presided over by a very dramatic, hyperbolic and vividly expressive if usually contradictory monologist and it took me the work of Thomas Bernhard (…) to make me aware, very slowly, of what I could do with this dominating part of my experience in terms of form.

Mehan Bronwyn: »Q & A with Jen Craig«, in: short Australian stories, 2. März 2015.