If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?

Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.

Technology and violence are interdependent.