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

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.

I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.