I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.