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

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 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.

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

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

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.