I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

We are creatures of story.

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with the corpses of poems and stories which have everything in them except the life they need.

For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister