Why do you like writing stories?

I think probably because I like…I like hearing stories. I like listening to stories. I like when you listen to a story it just takes you away from what’s happening around you. I love that feeling that about five or six minutes after a story starts, you forget a story is being told. And you forget what is happening, and you’re just inside the story, and I think that’s quite a powerful thing, and because I love listening to stories, it made me think I’d love to tell stories like that, I’d love to have that power, or to recreate that sense of casting a spell over an audience, or even one person. So that’s one of the reasons I like stories. I like telling stories because I like listening to them so much, but there is lots of other reasons too.

I think sometimes in stories even though they’re about things that are not happening right there in front of you at the time, they are ways of exploring in another place, things that happen to you in your own world. So they are sort of a way of acting out ideas and things without being able to do it at any time or any place, even if you are waiting for the bus or something like that. So they are a way of….in a way even though they are outside of what we are doing immediately at the time, they connect us…they are connected into that. That is sort of a strange answer I know.