Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

I am the world's worst diabetic.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.