Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace... When you see the necklace in the painting, it all makes sense. He loved her. Even if she lived to one hundred and five without ever getting an answer.

I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.

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 adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

Women need chocolate. It's a scientific fact.

If you look good, you feel good!