Believe in the importance of your art.

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When we fall in love, the world feels magical to us. It becomes an enchanted place.

Sometimes you have to follow your uncommon sense.

I loved writing something people usually have - miscommunication, for example. Now that I've written a romance, I'm sure I'll write more: it's fascinating to put people together and see what happens, how they fall in love and what that means in their lives.

The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction, and it's in a slipcase.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.