Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.

As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.

All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore.

I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.

But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!

Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.