A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.
I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
I think everybody has a secret life.
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.