My Self Is All To Me. I

'the Accursed' Is Very Much A Novel About Social Injustice As The Consequence Of The Terrible, Tragic Division Of Classes - The Exploitation Not Only Of Poor And Immigrant Workers But Of Their Young Children In Factories And Mills - And As The Consequence Of Race Hatred In The Aftermath Of The Civil War And The Freeing Of The Slaves.

I Really Love To Set Things In Places That Are Real To Me.

The Music Was Always In The Background, Like Music At A Church Service; It Was Something To Depend Upon.

My Role Models Were Childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, The Brontes.

Not Even The Most Devastating Truth Can Be Told; It Must Be Evoked.