Words matter, words have import.

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

Words matter, words have import.

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.