I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.

It was hard not to be full of hope

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.