I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.
Society decides when we get old. But the spirit never ages.
Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages