While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.