I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.