...real Loneliness Is Having No One To

Writing Stories Is My Way Of Scratching That Itch: My Escape From The Claustrophobia Of Individuality. It Lets Me, At Least For A While, Live More Than One Life, Walk More Than One Path. Reading, Of Course, Can Do The Same.

It Turns Up The Heat Under A Narrative When You Limit The Characters In Their Movements Or Their Freedoms.

Scared Is What You're Feeling. Brave Is What You're Doing.

Nowadays, 'invisibility' Was Supposed To Be The Big Problem, But The Way I Saw It Was, All That Mattered Was To Be Visible To Yourself.

I'm Really Aware That In Fiction, Women Are Pretty Much Equal. There's A Lot Of Very Successful Women Novelists. Not So Much [for Women Writers Working] In Film.