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

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

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.