It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

She has the gift of accepting her life.

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

Do what I will never do.

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.