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.

And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a steady pulse of pleasure and satisfaction and occasional irritation, and this seemed to be a happy exchange; if there had been moments in her life when she had been more elated, there had never been a time when things had been more constant.

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.