Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.