I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.