I feel like the word shatter.

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.