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.

The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.

There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

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

Language is a finding place, not a hiding place.