I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.

And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain remote African tribes there'd be some incredible four day rites of passage ceremony involving tattooing and potent hallucinogenic drugs extracted from tree-frogs, and village elders smearing my body with monkey blood, but here,rites of passage is all about three new pairs of pants and stuffing your duvet in a bin-liner.

Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.