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.

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

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

Never trust a man who can dance.

It's the fantasy of first love. 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. And it is such a fantasy. It takes you away from doing the dishes and the laundry. I think of this as a contemporary romance rather than erotic fiction.

Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.