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

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

My parents were sixty years married.

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

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.

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.