I remain curious about all the lives I can't have - and about the lives of others, real and imagined, past and present, and how people came to be who….

It was difficult to enjoy the trees and flowers when I was so aware of all that I had not yet done - pruning, weeding, transplanting, mulching, compo….

A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. Ther….

I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard to make the words evoke particular ….

A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My novels or my stories come to me….

A movie can evoke feelings, thoughts, it is all there and happening, there is no control over the images when you are watching a movie. You are trans….

There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded in mist and fog..

As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them, I don't think readers would know they were by the s….

There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself..

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me..