Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will have a more American and southerly setting. But that's certainly not to say I won't be back to Leaford.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.