The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.

To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily "I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife!" And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.