Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.