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!

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

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

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

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.

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