People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

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 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.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

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