One cannot always marry the person one loves.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstone’s or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to have physical evidence of the hours, weeks, years spent fashioning words into their patterns. You are already a writer.

What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.