Historical tends to be my bailiwick.

I love what I call "re-imagining," where I throw everything up in the air and let it fall in a different way. It's not the most efficient way to write a book, but it's how I find the story.

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

I absolute adore epic journeys that require a protagonist to fight for every victory in the hopes of finding triumph.

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.