People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.