You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

I always love writing about children.

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.