I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

My parents were sixty years married.

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.