I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.