There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

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.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.

Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

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