She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.