Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.

All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.