The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

It's lovely. I hate it.

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

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

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.