My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.