Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.
“I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended.”
“Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.”