I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.