When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.
It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.
It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.
To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.
I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.