Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.

I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.

What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.