Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

One cannot always marry the person one loves.

I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.

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.

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

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstone’s or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to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.