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

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

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.

It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you.

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

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.

I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.