Ironically, Writing A Novel Is Not A

I Feel Like If You Read Something, And It Makes You So Curious About A Topic That You Then Go Read Something Else, That's Exciting.

I Don't Know What It Is About Human Beings But Most Of Us Really Like Reading About Or Observing Sexual Tension And Romance. It's Just So Much Fun. I Don't Know If There Is Some Darwinian Thing In Us That Really Responds To That, But I Think The Most Memorable Scenes To Me In Books And Movies Are The Ones Where A Couple Is About To Kiss.

I Like It When Characters Are Some Combination Of Appealing And Maybe Flawed Or Self-interested. I Think In Terms Of Scenes, And What I Want A Scene To Achieve, And I Think That The Psychological Realism Arises From That.

Later On, When I Tried To Imagine How I Might Have Ruined Things, That Would Occur To Me - That I'd So Rarely Resisted, That I Hadn't Made It Hard Enough For Him. Maybe It Was Like Gathering Your Strength And Hurling Your Body Against A Door You Believe To Be Locked, And Then The Door Opens Easily - It Wasn't Locked At All - And You're Standing Looking Into The Room, Trying To Remember What It Was You Thought You Wanted.

She Has Always Been A Bystander In Family Destruction, Never Realizing She Herself Possessed The Capacity To Inflict It.