I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.