There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.