There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows.

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.