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While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.

If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

I was honestly a Catholic.

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

Catholic fiction of the type we're publishing is stories that we know faithful Catholics will enjoy - stories they can escape with, laugh at, cry with; stories that will enrich their lives.