The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.