It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?

I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.