I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.

I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.

Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking.

But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.

I was a very quiet child, quite introverted, really. Independent, yes; I didn't need a lot of supervision. Less so than I did when I got older, maybe. But I was a bookish child, not surprisingly. I could sit quite happily in a corner for hours and entertain myself with books.

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.