I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

I am often criticised for being rather accessible.

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

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

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

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

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