What else is there to write about than love and loss?

Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me.

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.