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.

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

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

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.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.