I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.

Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.