I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

I live for the blank page.

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.

I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring on the page. I don't actually think of myself as having 'created' any of these people.

I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant gratification, or all the little things that you can do with them.

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.