When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to the end of a piece of work, of making it as good as you can at that moment, is more of a relief than anything else, and then you wait for reviews.

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the wife is the one who drags herself and her children to whatever spiritual center they're going to.

Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.

I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.