I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
“Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.”
“My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.”