Modern morality is all about perception.

Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.