Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

You are an analog girl, living in a digital world.

When I was very young, I would occasionally stick 'f****' where I knew something contentious might happen so that the editor could remove the word 'f***' very proudly and leave whatever else was around it.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

Richard did not believe in angels, he never had. He was damned if he was going to start now. Still, it was much easier not to believe in something when it was not actually looking directly at you and saying your name.

It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.