I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing