Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.

Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.