A novel is a tricky thing to map.

I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions

A novel is a tricky thing to map.

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.

One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!