The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

we dislike those we've injured.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.