Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

I despise this weakness in myself - this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action.

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.

Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."