I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.
Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.
I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.
I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.
Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.