Until you know who you are you can’t write.

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.