I just hope she believes I would never, ever intentionally lift her words. The last thing I ever wanted to do was upset her.

I completely see the similarities, I'm not denying that those are there, but I can honestly say that any of those similarities were completely unconscious and unintentional.

I am a huge fan of her work and can honestly say that any phrasing similarities between her works and mine were completely unintentional and unconscious.

I don't see a huge talent difference between one age group or another. It all comes down to who has the dedication to sit down every day and put something on paper. It all starts from there.

When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own.

'Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.