And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

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.

I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place

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.