I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

You have your real life and then you have your work.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.