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.

Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

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

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.