If you look good, you feel good!

I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere. I mean... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.

I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl.

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.