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

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.

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 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.

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.