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

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

The British have always made terrible parents.

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.