Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.

I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.

I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.