What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

You don't have to follow anybody's rules.

Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.

In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.

But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.