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I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.

I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.

I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

I like my stories once removed.

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

I like having my own story remain my story.

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.