Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.

After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.