You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.