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.

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

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

I am often criticised for being rather accessible.

I always love writing about children.

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.