America does influence my work, also France, Europe generally, the East and India. |
An editor suggested to me I might try contemporary horror. At first this didn't appeal-then the idea arrived. |
Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable. |
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. |
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer. |
But all lives are important, all people are important, because everyone is a book. Some people just have easier access to it. |
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. |
How dare one presume to write in a particular way, for children? They deserve the best of a writer, just as the writer deserves the best of themselves. The only limits are sex, for reasons of censorship, and violence, for reasons of common sense. |
I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped. |
I am by no means unique. Let us respectfully allow children and the young to make their own decisions. |
I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. |
I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701. |
I couldn't believe someone had produced literature that was like an entirely new language, beautiful stuff. Graham Greene, everything. William Golding. |
I do need space aside from projects that fit in with what I am known for... to work on more contemporary novels. |
I don't have specific aims. Only to keep writing. I need more time, as I said, perhaps 25 hours in a day would be helpful. |