The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.

I think writing should be about change.

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.

I think it's common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley's Lover, of seeing what you can write and how you can write about sex, has reached a certain weary terminus with Fifty Shades of Grey.