We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.

Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.

With women the best aphrodisiac is words.