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

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

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

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.

Feminism is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isnt it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldnt it?

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.