She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.
As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.
But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.
How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?
The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.
I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.
I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.
Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.
I believe in the goodness of imagination.
My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.
It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.
Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book.
Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.
I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders.
Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.
The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.
All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.
I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.
