It is to live that requires courage, not to die.
I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.
There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
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.
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.