“The stories are very much a family history. Although I haven’t said who is who in the book. The things that were going on in Iraq at the time were things that were on my mind.”

“I think first and foremost, what is most important is a readership and a connection with a reader and that should be the only thing that really matters to a writer”

“In all the writing that I do, it is about discovery and understanding [...] and figuring out what it means to live in this world.”

“People know I like ghosts, but they don’t appreciate that that’s not horror. And I don’t do horror.”