How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

People die when curiosity goes.

My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.

If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.