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I Have To Be Very Careful, However, Because I Have No Intention Of Providing An Excuse For This Behavior. It's An Attempt To Explain How So Many Women Come From Backgrounds Where The Pressure To Be A Good Mother Is So Severe That If They Can't Do It, Something Really Snaps.

I'm A Fairly Ascetic Person. And I Do Most Of My Writing At Night. You Don't Get Distracted, Your Brain Goes Into What You Are Writing About, Into The World You're Writing About, Rather Than Into The World You're In.

People Are Disturbed Enough By Serial Killers, But The Whole Notion Of Female Violence, Particularly Maternal Violence - The Idea Of Mothers Who Kill - Really Unnerves People.

I, Like Most Of My Friends, Couldn't Believe I Bought A Mountain Called Misery Mountain, Because It Was So Appropriate.

I Wanted Nothing Less Than To Be A Fiction Writer When I Was A Kid. If You Had Told Me I Would Be An Artist Or Novelist When I Grew Up, I Would Have Laughed In Your Face