Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.

As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

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

Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.