Ang.: "It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling."
Wielkim niebezpieczeństwem lub co najmniej pokusą dla wielu pisarzy, jest zbyt autobiograficzne podejście w fikcji. Najlepsza jest odrobina autobiografii i dużo wyobraźni.
Ang.: "Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising."