Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

Love not often, but forever.

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines

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.

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.