I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.

Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.