I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.