There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from their point of view. It's really fun. It's not erotic.

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

Hungry ears are sharp ones.