I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.