I No Longer Believe That Just About

I've Been A Little Bit Obsessed With Religion, Without Being A Religious Person, For About A Decade.

I Don't Really Distinguish Between Sympathy And Honesty When I'm Writing. The Two Go Together - I'm Interested In Inhabiting My Characters, Seeing The World Through Their Eyes.

It's Like The Human Race Has Been Programmed For Misery.

As For Writing About Temptation, There's No Drama Without Temptation, And No Novel Without Drama.

She Would Be A Mentor And An Inspiration To Girls Like Herself, The Quiet Ones Who'd Sleepwalked Their Way Through High School, Knowing Nothing Except That They Couldn't Possibly Be Happy With Any Of The Choices The World Seemed To Be Offering Them.