I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

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.

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.

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

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!