I′m sure everyone is fascinated that you and Anne Rice are sisters; I know I am. How did you both come to be writers … and what led the two of you into fantasy and supernatural fiction?
′Anne wrote a little about our childhood in Violin. I have never written about it and have no plans to. But I will say that being Irish places us among a people to whom reality is a contingent experience. We are not entirely here. Nor do we base our lives on probability but on inspiration‚ illumination‚ and even...