Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.