People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

I woke up last night and thought: 'I must call somebody in my next novel Casablanca.' It's such a great name. I don't want to call anybody Fred or Jane or Susan, so when three people get into bed together, you don't know who they are.

The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them.

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm sleeping. It's a shame given my passion for big cats. But I really enjoy photography, so I'd love to photograph leopards in the wild some day.