Try to be accurate about stuff.

People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.

People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

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