Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.
You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.
Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.
The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.