There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean - you look at some people - their clothes go on flirting long after the people inside them have lost interest.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

In a way, the characters often do take over.

Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time.