Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don’t have to finish books you don’t like.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.