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

I don't use real people for inspiration.

Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that.

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

...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.

I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong." Anyway, it's fiction.

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