I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.