I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were. And what we remember.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.