I've always been a teaser, even as a kid.

In general, I think every novel is a political novel, in that every novel is an argument about how the world works, who has power, who has a voice, what we should care about. But political novels can be boringly polemical if they end up being too black and white, too one dimensional, like war is bad, killing people is wrong.

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

Don't you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably most writers aren't getting enough support.

I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.