In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.
“Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.”
“The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.”