I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use

The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.