The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.

Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.