Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.