The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.