It's lovely. I hate it.

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.