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I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises -... →
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how... →
And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she... →
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could... →
I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws... →
I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them for another forty minutes or so, go home and... →
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered... →
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very... →
For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't... →
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.