When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.

I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and choose what to use to construct a really interesting novel. I don't let facts get in the way of my imagination and my exploration of the subject's emotions and relationships.

Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it.

I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones to let go.

When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.

Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned with people knowing exactly what I made up and what is real.

Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.