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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Jane Austen is very amusing.

I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

I have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story.

I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.