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 do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

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

And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy -- and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

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

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.