Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.

I watch a lot of crime shows. The head investigator always said to the crime solver, "What do you say?" And inevitably the other has to say something like, "Well I'm thinking he was shot in the neck with a certain gun and he seemed to be running." The solver has to picture what he's seeing first, and then express his own observations. The writer does the same.

Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.