There is plenty of work for love to do.

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.

Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?