If people start pulling away the stereotypes of what angels are instead of these fluffy, teddy-bear kinds of angels, then they'll see, historically, that they were terrifying in some depictions. In the Bible, from what I remember, often the reaction to angels is one of terror.

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus operate within the boundaries of memory and fact.

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

One is but a shade of the other.