However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

She lay in the dark and knew everything.

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.