I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.

I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

I feel like I'm really lucky.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.