Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

We are creatures of story.

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

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.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.