I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

In my heart Im just a lucky waitress.

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.