Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.