More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.