Debate is so much better than denial.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult's point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic.