I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.