I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.