In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl.

What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?