Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.