Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.