I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

I have a grand - I wouldn't call my grandmother domineering, no, but this novel is about the way that family traits echo and reverberate through generations an…

I really do work in solitude.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

I have recently re-read much of Chekhov and it's a humbling experience. I don't even claim Chekhov as an influence because he influenced all of us. Like Shakes…

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for m…

We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres.