The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.