I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.