Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.