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.

It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside.

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.

People are talking about sex. They're talking about sex with their husbands. They're talking about sex with their girlfriends. They're talking about sex with their partners. And because of all of this communication, women are having much more intimate relationships, which is fantastic.

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 really like clever men who challenge you.

I came up with a story and I wrote it.